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Army Corps civilian builds up Wounded Warriors with sled hockey program
4/19/2013
Last year, Mark McKenna, a project engineer with the Fort Drum Field Office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District was working out at the gym at Fort Drum in Watertown, N.Y. "I was working out in the gym and a Soldier in a wheelchair came in and then turned around and left the gym."

Fish behavior guides riverbank repairs
4/15/2013
The banks of the Sacramento River experience constant erosion and that's a big reason why Sacramento has some of the highest flood risk in the nation. It's also the reason the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District conducts an annual survey of the Sacramento River and its tributaries to determine where the worst erosion is taking place and which erosion sites should be repaired first.

Far East District hosts the 28th Ministry of National Defense Exchange Program
4/15/2013
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Far East District hosted the 28th Korean Ministry of National Defense Exchange Program March 25-April 12. The program started in 1985 to train military and civilian engineers from the defense ministry on design, project management, contracting, and construction processes of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Going Green: Corps prescribed fire program helps double butterfly population
4/15/2013
EUGENE, Ore. -- The population of endangered Fender's blue butterflies has doubled at Fern Ridge Reservoir since last year, according to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers survey. The Corps' 2012 estimate of 3,769 Fender's blue butterflies at 11 sites near the reservoir west of Eugene, Ore., is the species' largest known population and continues a trend of positive population growth since it was first detected on Corps lands in 1998.

USACE professionals voluteer for eCYBERMISSION
4/11/2013
FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii- More than a dozen USACE professionals from the Pacific Ocean Division responded to a call for volunteers to be virtual judges February to March for the 2012/2013 eCYBERMISSION competition.

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