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    Kyle Kraynak and Jason Cote, park rangers, then built a water flow control device at the culverts entrance.

    Beavers build dams at Shenango Lake

    Shenango Lake maintenance workers cleared a beaver dam from a road culvert at Golden Run Wildlife Area to prevent flooding, Feb. 3.
  • Junior ROTC 1st Sgt. Amanda King, plants a seedling Feb. 22, 2016 to restore the environment at a disposal area near Wolf Creek Dam in Jamestown, Ky.

    Cadets plant seedlings to restore Wolf Creek Dam disposal area

    JAMESTOWN, Ky. (Feb. 22, 2016) – A determined group of Army Junior ROTC cadets from Pulaski County High School and Southwestern High School planted 4,000 seedlings as part of a once-in-a-lifetime environmental restoration opportunity at a disposal area near Wolf Creek Dam today.
  • Rear. Adm. Bill Byrne, commander U.S. Naval Forces Korea, Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, commander, U.S. Forces Korea, Vice Adm. Ki-sik Lee, commander Republic of Korea Fleet, Maj. Gen. James Walton, director of transformation and re-stationing for U.S. Forces Korea, Hon. Mark Lippert, U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Jung Gyung-jin, mayor of Busan for administrative affairs, and Lee Jong-cheol, Nam-gu district mayor, cut the ribbon of CNFK's new head quarters building during a ribbon-cutting ceremony. This ceremony marks the opening of CNFK’s new headquarters building in Busan since their relocation from Seoul as part of the greater Yongsan Relocation Plan.

    New era of alliance begins in Busan

    Commander,U.S. Naval Forces Korea (CNFK) conducted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Feb. 19,officially
  • “We are at the forefront of incredible change, represented in a few minutes when we’ll offload one of the heaviest pieces of equipment in the U.S. Army inventory. Before today, we were reliant on the airspace and the road networks to be able to move in an

    Ribbon-cutting opens railhead

    The railhead at Camp Humphreys was officially opened in a ribbon-cutting ceremony, and a tracked engineer recovery vehicle was the first vehicle to roll off the train and onto the railhead on Feb. 17, 2016.
  • Tiffany Torres is a value engineering officer with the Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville.

    Engineer steps outside comfort zone

    Tiffany Torres discusses her experience as an engineer, her challenges and hopes for the future of females in engineering.