USACE Everglades Restoration Picks up the Pace
“There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the Earth, remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them … They are unique...
View ArticleArmy Corps Recreation Facilities Offer an Array of Outdoor Activities
Across the country, people are looking for something to do on a free day. Some want to lie in bed and read a book. Some would rather spend the day on the computer or television playing video games....
View ArticleInvasive Species: Identification, Control, and Management
If zebra mussels, hydrilla, giant salvinia, kudzu, emerald ash borer, Burmese python, Asian carp, and saltcedar are on the areas that you are responsible for managing, you may have a non-native species...
View ArticleUSACE Reconceptualizes Flood Risk Management
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s (USACE) first disaster response mission was relatively straightforward: When the Mississippi River flooded in 1882, USACE transported supplies in and civilians out....
View ArticleGlobal Climate Change: Adapting the Corps of Engineers’ Mission
In 2007, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported: “Observational evidence from all continents and most oceans shows that many natural systems are being affected by...
View ArticleU.S. Army Corps of Engineers Park Rangers
As a boy growing up in the small town of Seneca, S.C., Scott Kelley lived an idyllic childhood in an aquatic paradise: Between Lake Keowee to the north and Hartwell Lake to the east and south, he spent...
View ArticleU.S. Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Work
It’s no exaggeration: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) environmental work in the United States, and in support of military installations and other international customers around the world,...
View ArticleThe Army Corps of Engineers Sustainability Program
On Oct. 5, 2009, when President Barack Obama issued Executive Order (EO) 13514, titled “Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance,” he outlined a series of ambitious...
View ArticleAmerica’s Great Outdoors
To the American public, the water resources over which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is charged with stewardship – 422 lake and river projects in 43 states, comprising a total of about 12...
View ArticleThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Regulatory Program
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) authority to regulate development in or near American waters dates to the late 19th century, when it was charged with protecting and maintaining the navigable...
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