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  • August

    A statue in Vail, Colo., honors the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division, that trained at Camp Hale, Colo., near the resort town. Pete Seibert, who helped to start the ski resort served with the 10th Mountain Division during World War II.

    Military Munitions Remediation at Camp Hale: the project, the history, the public

    Through the Department of Defense’s Formerly Used Defense Sites mission and under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District is cleaning up contamination, addressing military munitions, and removing safety hazards caused by past activities near Camp Hale, Colo., where the Army trained for winter warfare from 1942 to 1965.
  • Major Daniel R. Young is the Deputy Commander of the Tulsa District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

    Employee Spotlight: Maj. Dan Young

    Major Daniel Young recently took over as Deputy Commander of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Tulsa
  • Steve Pappas, ECORP Consulting field director, answers questions from members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District regulatory team during a visit to an archaeological dig near El Dorado Hills, Calif., July 31, 2014. ECORP has been contracted to help research and catalog historic sites on this project site.

    Sacramento District archaeologist helps preserve “layer cake” of history

    Over 1,900 acres of Northern California property located between Folsom and El Dorado Hills is like “a layer cake of modern history,” according to Erin Hess, an archaeologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District Regulatory Division. “This area includes everything from remnants of placer mining, hydraulic mining, dredge mining, dairy operations, roadside inns from the 1800s all the way up to Cold War-era missile research facilities,” said Hess.
  • Patrons of the food court on U.S Army Garrison Humphreys will be greeted by a new visitor when they walk through the entryway of the facility. A 55 inch touch-screen television monitor is now on display with the latest information on construction progress at Humphreys.

    New kiosk on Humphreys keeps community informed on garrison’s construction progress

    Patrons of the food court on U.S Army Garrison Humphreys are being greeted by a new visitor when
  • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., -- Team members utilize the dual-net seining process to collect silvery minnows and other fish in the Rio Grande, July 31, 2014.

    Silvery Minnow Surviving the Drought in New Mexico

    The survival and recruitment of the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow, an endangered species, is of utmost importance in New Mexico. This is not easy in times of drought. However, with the hard work and cooperation of the Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Collaborative Program, the minnow continues to survive in the Rio Grande.