6 Nov 2020

Improving Biodiversity in the Habitat Management Units

Habitat Management Units, or HMUs, are different from other parks. While parks are maintained to provide recreational opportunities, HMUs are areas of land dedicated to environmental stewardship.

15 Oct 2020

Corps repurposes native willow for habitat improvement

In an effort to stabilize shorelines, protect cultural sites and improve habitat for fish and wildlife, Corps engineers, biologists and environmental scientists have repurposed native coyote willow found below the Mill Creek Diversion Dam at Rooks Park in Walla Walla.

13 Aug 2020

Constructing Habitat for an Industrious Owl

For most bird species, the concept of living underground would be considered strange. For the burrowing owl, living anywhere else would be unthinkable.

26 Jul 2019

Twenty-five years of work at Poplar Island brings improved habitat, expanded use of dredged material

For the past 25 years, the Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island has built island habitat in the Chesapeake Bay. Since 1994, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, and its partners have been working to restore remote island habitat in the Chesapeake Bay by beneficially using dredged material at Poplar Island.

8 May 2017

Reef building to begin on Piankatank River

Oysters are receiving a new $2 million, 25 acre reef in the Piankatank River as part of the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Recovery Project.

16 Jul 2012

USACE approves first Native American commercial wetland mitigation bank in U.S. with Lummi Nation

Federal agencies worked together with the Lummi Nation to establish the first federally authorized Native American sponsored commercial wetland and habitat mitigation bank in the nation.