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  • Fort Peck announces winter access for motorized vehicles

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Fort Peck Project has announced winter guidance for motorized access at Fort Peck Reservoir located near Fort Peck, Montana.

  • Public encouraged to submit comments on Lower Missouri River flood risk study

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District and Kansas City District (USACE) have jointly prepared a feasibility report with integrated programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) that analyzes and discloses effects associated with the Lower Missouri River Flood Risk and Resiliency System Plan Comprehensive Study. The System Plan has been developed to identify actions to address flood risk and resiliency along the entire Lower Missouri River basin. The System Plan identifies projects that can achieve flood risk benefits while also providing ecological, recreational, economic or social benefits.

  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announces publication of 2026 nationwide permits

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced today the publication of the 2026 nationwide permits in the Federal Register. The 56 reissued and one new nationwide permit in the final action are necessary for work in streams, wetlands and other waters of the United States under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899.

  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announces finalization of nationwide permits

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced today that it will reissue 56 existing nationwide permits and issue one new permit for work in wetlands and other waters that are regulated by Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and/or Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899. One existing permit will not be reissued.

  • USACE publishes final Dakota Access Pipeline environmental impact statement

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District has published the Final Environmental Impact Statement evaluating Dakota Access, LLC’s request for an easement under the Mineral Leasing Act for the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline has been in operation since 2017 and crosses beneath federally managed land at Lake Oahe, North Dakota. 

  • Notice of prescribed burns: Missouri River Recovery Program mitigation sites, Nebraska

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, in contract with Cloud Mountain Forestry, will conduct prescribed burns from Nov. 20, 2025, to April 15, 2026, at nine individual mitigation sites located in the following Nebraska counties: Burt, Cass, Otoe, Nemaha and Richardson. The exact dates and times will depend on weather and site conditions.

  • Vegetation control to begin on Missouri River sandbars between Garrison Dam and Huff, N.D.

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct vegetation management activities during August and September on sandbars in the Missouri River between Garrison Dam and Huff, North Dakota. The Bismarck-Mandan river reach (river miles 1325 to 1310) will not be sprayed. This work is being done to keep the sandbars free of vegetation and usable by the threatened piping plover for nesting.

  • Vegetation control to begin on Missouri River sandbars between Yankton and Vermillion, S.D.

    During September, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct vegetation management activities on sandbars in the Missouri River between Yankton and Vermillion, South Dakota, the upper portion of Lewis and Clark Lake near Springfield South Dakota and Niobrara, Nebraska, and as far upstream as Pickstown, South Dakota. This work is being done to keep the sandbars free of vegetation and usable by the threatened piping plover for nesting as well to control invasive common reed that has become prevalent in the lake area.

  • Fort Peck reminds campers of regulations

    The Natural Resource Office at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Fort Peck Project would like to remind visitors of the following regulations governing camping:

  • Recreational areas at Lake Oahe Project to reopen Aug. 14

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District’s Lake Oahe Project will reopen Beaver Creek and Hazelton recreational areas, located in North Dakota, from Aug. 14. to Sept. 30, 2025. The Cattail Bay primitive camping area also will also reopen beginning Aug. 14.