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  • March

    VISALIA, CALIF., -- Army Corps of Engineers Maj. Gen. Bo Temple hands Valerie McKay, a park ranger with the corps, a book on Thursday at Lake Kaweah. Temple flew from Washington, D.C., in part, to meet McKay, whose late grandfather fought in World War I for the British and participated in the 1914 Christmas Day Truce.

    A Truce to Remember: WWI Experience Recounted at Lake Kaweah Visit

    Just three days before Christmas, U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Bo Temple sent an email to his 37,000 civilians and soldiers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In the message, he reminded them of a story from World War I, when British and German soldiers laid their weapons down and came to a truce.

  • February

    Los Angeles County Public Works Deputy Director Mark Pestrella, Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and Los Angeles District Commander Col. Mark Toy ceremonially turn dirt Feb. 22 for the start of the $7 million Tujunga Wash Ecosystem Restoration project that will extend greening along the sides of a 3/4-mile stretch of concrete channel in the San Fernando Valley that carries runoff from Hansen Dam to the Los Angeles River.

    Corps and LA County break ground for Tujunga Wash restoration

    LOS ANGELES--U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District and Los Angeles County officials broke ground Feb. 22 on a project designed to restore degraded habitat in the San Fernando Valley. Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, Public Works Deputy Director Mark Pestrella and District Commander Col. Mark Toy ceremonially turned dirt for the start of the $7 million Tujunga Wash Ecosystem Restoration project that will extend greening along the sides of a 3/4-mile stretch of concrete channel that carries runoff from Hansen Dam to the Los Angeles River.

  • January

    More than 300 Los Angeles District employees gathered for their first town hall meeting with South Pacific Division Commander Col. Mike Wehr.

    Division commander holds town hall meeting

    LOS ANGELES — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers South Pacific Division Commander Col. Mike Wehr visited the Los Angeles District and conducted a town hall meeting with more than 300 Corps employees at the Sheraton Downtown Jan. 12.
  • SANTA CLARA PUEBLO, N.M., -- Maj. Seth Wacker and Robert Isenberg of the Corps’ South Pacific Division’s 59th Forward Engineering Support Team – Advanced (center), visit a freshwater site at Santa Clara Pueblo and meet with Adrian Garcia, a Santa Clara tribal member.

    District Achieves another First for Tribal Program

    In the first meeting of its kind, Robert Isenberg and Maj. Seth Wacker, members of the South Pacific Division’s 59th Forward Engineering Support Team - Advanced (FEST) joined District Tribal Liaison Ron Kneebone in a visit with representatives of two New Mexico Pueblos Dec. 14 and 15. They met with the Pueblo of Santa Clara and the Pueblo de Cochiti to provide the Native American tribes with critically needed engineering support to address local infrastructure issues and to provide FEST members with real-world training.
  • A bald eagle is spotted in St. Paul, Minn.

    Citizen scientists key to success for Bald Eagle survey

    SAN FRANCISCO (Jan. 3, 2012) -- A key annual event in the recovery of Bald Eagle populations takes place January 4-18, when hundreds of citizen scientists take to the field for the 34th annual Midwinter Bald Eagle Survey. "The survey is a true public-private partnership with hundreds of volunteer citizen scientists taking part, in addition to federal, state, and NGO (Non-Government Organization) biologists. Forty-three states continue to actively participate, with over 740 standardized survey routes across the country," said Wade Eakle, the 2012 national survey coordinator and an ecologist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, or USACE.