Construction workers repair a degraded stream at a mitigation bank site in Spanishburg, W.Va. A mitigation bank is a parcel of land or body of water on which a banker has conducted mitigation activities such as More
Jason Duke, a geographic information systems coordinator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service directs an airboat to search for oil off the coast of South Pass, La. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is pro More
VENICE, La. -- Members from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service search for oil off the coast of South Pass, La. May 18, 2010. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is providing on-the-ground intelligence on oil si More
VENICE, La. -- Members from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service look for oil off the coast of South Pass, La. May 18, 2010. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is providing on-the-ground intelligence on oil sigh More
VENICE, La. -- Jason Duke, a geographic information systems coordinator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service discusses communication methods with Charles LeBlanc, an airboat contractor, in South Pass, La., M More
VENICE, La. -- Boats from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service moor up along side the barge Battle Ship, which is serving as their forward command post, in Dennis Pass, La., May 18, 2010. The U.S. Fish and Wildl More
VENICE, La. -- Boom put in place to protect sensitive areas from the oil discharge from the Deepwater Horizon/BP incident, protects the shores of Bretan Island, La., which is a nesting ground for endangered bi More
VENICE, La. -- Absorbent boom put in place to protect sensitive areas from the oil discharge from the Deepwater Horizon/BP, protects the shores of Bretan Island, La., which is a nesting ground for endangered bi More
VENICE, La. -- A U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer observes Raul Sanchez, a refuge law enforcement officer with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, tag a dead pelican for an analysis of its death on Bretan Island, More
JEFFERSON PARISH, La.--Kayla DiBenedetto of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service carries an oiled pelican from a nesting area in Barataria Bay to a waiting boat, Saturday, June 5, 2010. The pelican was transporte More
KEY LARGO, Fla. - Reporters take a vessel tour of Florida Bay Monday June 21, 2010, with stops at Upper Cross Bank and North Nest Key to view the natural resources of Florida Bay. Representatives of the Nation More
KEY LARGO, Fla. - Reporters take a vessel tour of Florida Bay Monday June 21, 2010, to view natural resources. Representatives of the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Coast Guard, and Flo More
VENICE, La. - Pon Dixson, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast La. regional supervisor, drives a boat in the Delta National Wildlife Refuge Aug. 22, 2010, in search of work boats removing boom from the mars More
Lt. Col. Craig Hamilton, deputy district engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Memphis District, talks about his district's support for this memorandum of agreement that supports his district's purpose More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' original Jameson Island Chute Project crosses the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge. The Corps has announced plans to restore additiona More
Randy Urich, environmental section manager, prepares to plant an American elm seedling April 20. This is the third year the Corps has planted seedlings on the Pool 8 islands. Including this year, around 15,000 More
Artist Patrick Ching autographs several copies of a newly released poster featuring Marine Corps Base Hawaii efforts to protect Hawaiian monk seals during an unveiling ceremony, May 23.
Picture of articulated concrete revetment matting taken during low flow conditions in February 2013 on the Brazos River illustrating likely barrier to fish passage. Photo by Sean Edward, USFWS
Gregory Johnson, commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, James Gray, Wolf Creek Hatchery project leader, and Lt. Col. John L. Hudson, Nashville District commander, throw buckets More
U.S Coast Guard crew members assigned to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Kukui help prepare Layson ducks for translocation to Kure Atoll, Hawaii Sept. 3, 2014. The U.S. Coast Guard partnered with the U.S. Fish and More
(Left to right) Fred Ragan, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District chief of projects and planning; Mary Jennings, field supervisor, U.S. Fish and Wildlife services; David McKinney, biologist, Tennesse More
Laura Mendenhall, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist assigned to the 22nd Civil Engineer Squadron, bottom right, measures a bass with the help of Boy Scout Troop 364, April 16, 2016, at McConnell Air Forc More
An excavator operated by Bristol Environmental Remediation Services, LLC, digs up contaminated soil and old, rusted diesel drums June 20 during an environmental cleanup project at Attu Island. During the projec More
U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Patricia Hill (right), commander, Sector North Carolina, participates in an oil spill exercise at the Morehead City Convention Center in Morehead City, North Carolina, Sept. 15, 2016. Amo More
161201-N-AV234-032 PEARL HARBOR (Dec. 1, 2016) Shad Kane, facility manager of Kalaehoa Heritage Park, performs a traditional Hawaiian blessing at the opening ceremony of the U.S. Wildlife Service’s Betty Nagami More
Several kids hold the trout they caught during the 20th Annual Kids Fishing Rodeo June 10, 2017 at the Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery. (USACE photo by Park Ranger Sondra Carmen)
An excavator loads a dump truck with concrete, rock and soil from Roaring River Dam in Jackson County, Tennessee Aug. 1, 2017. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is removing the dam, built in 1976 by the U More
Fisheries Biologist John Noble (right) meets with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel, Fisheries Biologist Louise Malden and Project Leader Sam Finney (left), at the site of the former West Silver Wetland More
Dale Hollow Lake Park Ranger Hailey Boles talks with children about water safety during the Seventh Annual Wilderness Day Camp July 11, 2019 at the Dale Hollow Dam Pavilion in Celina, Tenn. (USACE photo by Mark Rankin)
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee from the Genoa Fish Hatchery of Genoa, Wis., stocks rainbow trout April 26, 2019, in Swamp Pond on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. Hatchery personnel stocked more than 1 More
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Director-nominee Aurelia Skipwith provides opening remarks for the presentation of the 2019 USFWS Military Conservation Partner Award to the Directorate of Public Works En More
(Left to right) Josh Tompkins, fisheries biologist; Nathan Rister, fisheries technician; and Matt Combs, fisheries biologist; Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Agency, demonstrate electrofishin More
Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel visit Midway Atoll, Sept. 20, 2019. Midway Atoll is apart of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monum More
Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA0 and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel travel to Midway Atoll for a tour of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, Sept. 20, 20 More
David Lambert, project manager with Fish Guidance Systems, and Jill Kelley, project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District, watch as a crew prepares to install a section of the bio aco More
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during a commissioning ceremony for a bio-acoustic fish fence Nov. 8, 2019 below Barkley Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky. The BAFF sends a curtain of bubbles, sound and li More
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) employee Nick Bloomfield stocks rainbow trout April 29, 2020, in Stillwell Lake on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. Approximately 15,000 rainbow trout were stocked at severa More
FORT BENNING, Ga. – Officials of the U.S. Army and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sign a conservation agreement here Sept. 25 to support management of natural resources on Army-controlled lands. Signing are Ale More
Three young American Bald Eagles stand in their cage on a hacking tower at Dale Hollow Lake in Allons, Tenn., Aug. 22, 1988. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District conducted an Eagle Restoration Pr More
A mitigation bank is a parcel of land or body of water on which a banker has conducted mitigation activities such as environmental restoration in anticipation of future impacts from unrelated projects. Mitigati More
Sharpnose shiner (Notropis oxyrhynchus). Photo by Chad Thomas, Texas State University
(Left to right) Lt. Col. Craig Hamilton, deputy district engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Memphis District; Paul Davis, director of Division of Water Pollution Control at Tennessee Department of En More
Tom Novak, Environmental Management Program project manager, plants trees on islands in the Mississippi River south of Brownsville, Minn., April 20. The Corps will plant more than 4,900 seedlings this spring on More
Lt. Col. John L. Hudson, Nashville District commander, speaks to a crowd at a ceremony today marking the groundbreaking for a $1.8 million Wolf Creek Hatchery Wetland and Stream Mitigation Program project below More
Crew members of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Kukui and wildlife preservation experts help prepare endangered Laysan ducks for translocation Sept. 3, 2014, at Kure Atoll, Hawaii. The U.S. Coast Guard partnered wi More
Director, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, Ed Carter talks with Tim Higgs, chief of Environmental Section, Project Planning Branch, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District during the ceremony marki More
Andy Sorum, project manager with the Formerly Used Defense Sites program, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Alaska District, looks on as employees with Bristol Environmental Remediation Services, LLC, load and prepa More
161201-N-AV234-088 PEARL HARBOR (Dec. 1, 2016) Capt. Scott Cloyd, executive officer, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Hawaii spoke on behalf of the U.S. Navy at the opening ceremony of the U.S. Wildlife Ser More
Kids fish for trout June 10, 2017 during the 20th Annual Kids Fishing Rodeo June 10, 2017 at the Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery. (USACE photo by Park Ranger Sondra Carmen)
A crew with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources works to remove an old dam along Silver Creek on July 13, 2017, at Fort McCoy, Wis. The removal of the old dam, built in 1952, was aimed at improving st More
An excavator moves into position to remove Roaring River Dam in Jackson County, Tennessee Aug. 1, 2017. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is removing the dam, built in 1976 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engin More
Fisheries Biologist John Noble (center) explains the work that was done on Silver Creek to remove the West Silver Wetland Dam at the site in summer 2017 with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel, Fisheries More
The mast of a sunken sailboat is seen as team members with the Hurricane Maria ESF-10 Puerto Rico response assess information on vessels that have been identified for possible removal or pollution response acti More
Paul Boyce, president of the Friends of Dale Hollow Lake Fish Hatchery, teaches children how to fly fish and cast during the Seventh Annual Wilderness Day Camp July 11, 2019 at the Dale Hollow Dam Pavilion in C More
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel from the Genoa Fish Hatchery of Genoa, Wis., stock rainbow trout April 26, 2019, in Swamp Pond on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. Hatchery personnel stocked more than 15, More
Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel take a tour of Midway Atoll, Sept. 20, 2019. The atoll is apart of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine N More
Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel receive a tour of Midway Atoll, Sept. 20, 2019. The atoll is apart of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine Nati More
Fish Guidance Systems crew prepares to install a section of the bio acoustic fish fence Oct. 9, 2019 on the riverbed below Barkley Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky. The BAFF is expected to be operational in a few weeks More
Congressman James Comer, Kentucky 1st District, speaks during a commissioning ceremony for a bio-acoustic fish fence Nov. 8, 2019 below Barkley Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky. The BAFF sends a curtain of bubbles, sou More
From left, Erica Lee, Air Force Civil Engineer Center Support Program manager for Eglin Natural Resources, and Amanda Robydek, Leidos Environmental Scientist, hold a Kemp's ridley sea turtle during one of many More
Patty Coffey, project manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District's Eagle Restoration Program; gives Gatorade to a young American Bald Eagle being held by Frank Massa, natural resource manag More
Smalleye shiner (Notropis buccula). Photo by Chad Thomas, Texas State University
Lt. Col. Anthony P. Mitchell, district engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District, addresses partners that teamed up with the Nature Conservancy on mussel protection and restoration during More
Tom Lytle, engineering and construction, plants trees in Pool 8 on the Mississippi River, April 20. The Corps plans to plant around 4,900 seedlings this spring.
Visitors stand atop newly dredged river sand at the Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge in Antioch, Calif., Nov. 9, 2013, the result of a unique partnership among the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. More
An up-close view of the Karner blue butterfly, which is an endangered species, is shown June 2, 2014, at Fort McCoy, Wis. The species has thrived at Fort McCoy because of work completed by post natural resource More
Gregory Johnson, commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, Lt. Col. John L. Hudson, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander and James Gray, Wolf Creek National F More
(Lto R) Chip Hall, biologist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District, Fred Ragan, chief of projects and programs, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Connie Flatt, Operations and Maintenance Program Manager, More
Andy Sorum, project manager with the Formerly Used Defense Sites program, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Alaska District, displays a piece of contaminated soil June 20 at Attu Island, Alaska. During an environmen More
An excavator removes the concrete cap from Roaring River Dam in Jackson County, Tennessee Aug. 1, 2017. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is removing the dam, built in 1976 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engin More
Dale Hollow Lake Park Ranger Hailey Boles teaches Avery Underwood the fundamentals of archery during the Seventh Annual Wilderness Day Camp July 11, 2019 at the Dale Hollow Dam Pavilion in Celina, Tenn. (USACE More
(Left to right) Josh Tompkins, fisheries biologist; Matt Combs, fisheries biologist; and Nathan Rister, fisheries technician; Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, demonstrate electrofishing for A More
Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel receive a tour of Midway Atoll, Sept. 20, 2019. The atoll is apart of the Papahānaumokuākea Mari More
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Left) and Congressman James Comer, Kentucky 1st District, congratulate each other after McConnell initiated a button to commission a bio-acoustic fish fence Nov. 8, 2019 More