• Sardis Lake Surveying Bald Eagles

    Vicksburg, Miss…Sardis Lake’s Bald Eagle survey will be held Saturday, January 23, 2016. Every year park rangers and volunteers survey areas around the lake to get population counts for Bald Eagles. A total of eight eagles were spotted during last year’s event.
  • Army Corps Senior Geographer receives Commander’s Award for Civilian Service

    Jeff Cusano (PL-E), a senior geographer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ New York District with over 20 years’ experience creating maps, has received the Commander’s Award for Civilian Service for superior service and exceptional devotion to the District’s Planning Division.
  • Nearly completed chapel cheers chaplain, community

    The first of four new chapels is nearly completed on Camp Humphreys, and is slated to be put into use by mid-2016.
  • Chapel completion cheers chaplain and community

    One critical aspect of any military installation is a space that allows for service members to exercise their freedom of religion. For a military city, greater numbers and diversity demand more than just a single space. The first of four new chapels was recently completed, and is slated to be put into use by mid-2016.
  • Public invited to meeting about Kansas Army Ammunition Plant

    The Kansas Army Ammunition Plant will host a Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) meeting for local community members Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016 at Labette Community College, H Building, Room H211, 13th St., Parsons, Kan., from 6 – 8 p.m.
  • Icy conditions can spawn dangerous situations at Tuttle Creek Lake

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Tuttle Creek Lake encourages winter recreationists to exercise extreme caution with current icy conditions at the lake.
  • RESERVABLE SITES CHANGE AT NIMROD AND BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKES

    PLAINVIEW, Ark. – With the turn of the New Year, many people will soon be thinking about spring and summer camping and fishing trips. The Army Corps of Engineers at Nimrod and Blue Mountain lakes wants to inform you about some changes to the reservable sites at both lakes.
  • Unique federal program cleans tribal lands, creates tribal lands, creates jobs in Alaska

    For nearly 40 years, Wildwood Air Force Station’s buildings 100 and 101 stood as abandoned relics of the Department of Defense. Now, the demolition of the facilities and other restorative projects on the same land are providing a local federally recognized native tribe with new opportunities.
  • Unique federal program cleans tribal lands, creates jobs in Alaska

    During the summers of 2010 and 2011, the buildings, located about four miles north of Kenai, Alaska, were demolished and removed by the Kenaitze Indian Tribe. The Kenai Natives Association owns the property as a village corporation under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District manages the federal program that funded the removal project, as well as other environmental cleanup activities situated on tribal lands throughout the state.
  • Unique federal program cleans tribal lands, creates jobs in Alaska

    For nearly 40 years, Wildwood Air Force Station’s buildings 100 and 101 stood as abandoned relics of the Department of Defense. Now, the demolition of the facilities and other restorative projects on the same land are providing a local federally recognized native tribe with new opportunities.