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  • September

    COCHITI LAKE, N.M. – Sept. 5, 2015, 57 students and 11 advisors from West Mesa High School’s JROTC (Albuquerque, N.M.) built 2,600 feet of hiking trail at the project, connecting the Visitors Center with the swim beach. The project used existing two-track roads and converted them to a useable trail without unnecessarily degrading surrounding natural resources.

    Volunteers build trails at Cochiti Lake

    Students and advisors from the JROTC at West Mesa High School spent part of their Labor Day weekend improving hiking trails at Cochiti Lake.

  • August

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Silvery minnow are measured before being released back into the Rio Grande, Aug. 25, 2015. District biologists are monitoring habitat restoration sites to learn more about the endangered silvery minnow population. This minnow is over 3 inches, which indicates it is over a year old. Minnows produced this year average 30-35 millimeters or about 1.5 inches in length.

    Silvery Minnow Increase

    District biologists continue to monitor habitat restoration sites to learn more about the endangered silvery minnow population. “Observations are that the silvery minnow is doing better this year,” said fishery biologist Michael Porter.

  • July

    Examples of unexploded ordnance found at a FUDS site in New Mexico in 2012.

    What do FUDS look like?

    Roughly 9-square miles of present day El Malpais National Monument are considered a Formerly Used Defense Site, because of the land's use as the Kirtland Demolition Bombing Range during WW II.
  • Sediment-filled Hesco baskets line the Santa Clara Creek channel to increase the height of the bank and help contain some flood flows. Courtesy Elizabeth Lockyear/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District

    Santa Clara strives to build resilience to fires, floods

    Severe wildfires have raged through the upper reaches of the tribe’s lands in the past decade, with the 2011 Las Conchas Fire leaving about 80 percent of the pueblo’s watershed destroyed in its wake. The aftereffects pose an existential threat to the village.
  • Wolf Creek pours into Granada from the southwest. Des Marteau Commission Co elevator in the background. Special thanks to the staff at John Martin Reservoir for scanning this historic photo.

    Remembering the 1965 Arkansas River Flood in Southeastern Colorado

    I remember the 1965 flood! In 1965, I was a kid living at Granada, Colorado. This article is part memoir and part summary of events that occurred during the 1965 Arkansas River Flood as documented during and after that flood 50 years ago.
  • HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – District Commander Lt. Col. Patrick Dagon (second from left) joins Lt. Col. Kathleen Mackey, commander of the 49th Medical Support Squadron (third from left); and Col. Leslie Knight, commander of the 49th Medical Group (fifth from left) to break ground on the new medical clinic at the base, July 1, 2015.

    Work Begins on New Medical Clinic at Holloman Air Force Base

    District Commander Lt. Col. Patrick Dagon joined the 49th Medical Group, the 49th Medical Support Squadron, and others to celebrate the start of construction on a new medical clinic at Holloman AFB, July 1, 2015, with a groundbreaking ceremony.
  • KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – District Commander Lt. Col. Patrick Dagon, far left, joins Sen. Martin Heinrich (4th from left) and Maj. Gen. Sandra Finan, commander of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, to ceremonially break ground on Phase 2 of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center expansion, June 29, 2015.

    Multiphase Ceremony Celebrates Milestones in Multiphase Project

    The District participated in a double ceremony celebrating two milestones in the expansion of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, June 29, 2015.

  • June

    240th Birthday of the U.S. Army

    240th Birthday of the U.S. Army and USACE

    The U.S. Army and USACE celebrate 240 Years of Selfless Service to the Nation. 240 Years and Still BUILDING STRONG.

  • May

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers San Francisco District, Deputy Commander Lt. Col. Adam J. Czekanski, presents a district coin to thank the South Pacific Division Commander, Brig. Gen. Mark Toy for taking time to share both his personal and professional experiences as part of our Asian-Pacific American Heritance Month observance.

    South Pacific Division's Commander Toy reflects on meaning of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month

    May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month and as a fourth generation Chinese American, Brig. Gen. Mark Toy, South Pacific Division commander, described what the event means to him in an emotion-filled recollection of the journey his family made from Asia to the United States beginning in the 1890's.
  • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Several District employees are participating in the Cascade Bicycle Club's Bike Month Challenge Presented by Adobe. The team, known as the Rio Grande Corps-muters, pose for a photo on National Bike to Work Day, May 15, 2015.

    Employees Bike to Work

    Approximately a dozen employees participated in National Bike to Work Day, May 15, despite the day’s wet ending with rain, wind and thunderstorms rolling across the Albuquerque area.