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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...

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Army 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....

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Invasive 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...

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USACE 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....

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Global 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...

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U.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...

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U.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,...

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The 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...

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America’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...

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The 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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