14 Nov 2025

Conservation programs improve outlook of threatened piping plover

The Missouri River Recovery Program’s Emergent Sandbar Habitat Program and Tern and Plover Monitoring Program, managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District’s Threatened and Endangered Species Section, continues to improve habitat and reproductive outcomes for the threatened Northern Great Plains piping plover and formerly endangered interior least tern.

23 Sep 2025

Construction on second project under Tribal Partnership Program has begun

Construction on a second U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District project under the Tribal Partnership Program has begun. The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe North Ecosystem Restoration Project will help mitigate shoreline erosion along Lake Sharpe in Lower Brule, South Dakota. It is being funded through a cost-sharing agreement between USACE and the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, or LBST, under program requirements.

3 Sep 2025

Herd Highlight: Russell Somsen, Oahe Project natural resource specialist

Meet Russell (Russ) Somsen, a natural resources specialist at the Oahe Project in Fort Pierre, South Dakota. Russ has worked 35 years for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Omaha District in a variety of roles to include work with the Emergent Sandbar Habitat Program, threatened and endangered species, noxious weed control, ecosystem mitigation, visitor services and the processing of real estate and regulatory actions. He also serves as a contracting officer representative for multiple contracts.

31 Jul 2025

Herd Highlight: Patricia Gilbert-Ball, natural resource specialist and district’s only beekeeper

Patricia Gilbert-Ball, a natural resources specialist and park ranger with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District’s Fort Peck Project in Montana, is also the district's only beekeeper.

6 Jun 2025

Omaha District dam safety inspection season in full swing

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, Dam Safety Section performed the first of two periodic tributary dam inspections scheduled for 2025 beginning with the Branched Oak Dam located northwest of Lincoln, Nebraska June 2.