Brandon Bacon (right), an environmental compliance coordinator with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District’s Big Bend Project, discusses the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe North Ecosystem Restoration Project with Joel Bich, a wildlife biologist with the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Wildlife, Fish, and Recreation Department, while touring the constructions site in Lower Brule, South Dakota, July 15, 2025. The project will mitigate shoreline erosion caused by wind and ice formation. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Delanie Stafford)