5 Sep 2025

USACE completes South Jetty repairs, concludes decade-long Mouth of Columbia River project

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Portland District, has completed major rehabilitation to the South Jetty at the mouth of the Columbia River, marking the end of a decade-plus effort to restore the three jetties that protect one of the nation’s busiest trade corridors.

9 Jul 2025

45 Years Later, the Engineers Who Faced the Volcano Remember

When a volcano erupts hurling millions of cubic yards of sediment onto the surrounding area and into local rivers, how does a community deal with it, and where does all that sediment go?

9 Apr 2025

Corps of Engineers aids community in flood fight

A confluence of forces – early spring snowmelt, rogue rodent holes, and a compromised levee – brought forth a deluge that escalated into an intense, ongoing flood fight in March in the high desert town of Burns, Oregon.

4 Jan 2024

From Villain to Victor: History of the Bald Eagle Watch

Bald eagle watches are a popular winter event in many states with wintering eagle populations. Watches began after eagle populations crashed in the 1960s to share information about challenges threatening the birds’ survival.

15 Dec 2023

‘Man Overboard’: Dredge vessel crew saves woman swept away by Columbia River

It was the sound – something like a scream – that first caught their attention.

5 Oct 2023

Lyle Wold: 50 years of public service, would he ever retire?

Army veteran and civil servant Lyle Wold is retiring and explains his commitment to the nation after over 50 years of combined federal service.

24 Jun 2022

Corps trains for ‘Super Bowl of disasters’

The Corps of Engineers' Northwestern Division led a regional exercise June 14-16 to prepare its teams of emergency planners, operators, and engineers for the possibility of a severe earthquake from the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

21 Apr 2022

Corps bracing for another challenging water year in Willamette Basin

Despite substantial help from recent rain and snow events, Army water managers are bracing for another challenging year as they work to refill 13 Willamette Valley reservoirs for the upcoming conservation season.

11 Mar 2022

Climbers inspect Bonneville Lock's miter gate

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintains and assesses the locks along the Columbia and Snake rivers on an annual basis to keep an estimated $23 billion dollars’ worth of commerce flowing.

18 Oct 2021

That sounds fishy: demonized trash fish finally gets some respect

Leaves are changing, the weather is cooling and getting wetter, and Fred Meyer is stocking its shelves with Christmas decorations, which means it’s October. Instead of skipping ahead to winter holidays, let’s fall back and celebrate autumn and Halloween by highlighting a fish that has been demonized in the past, partly for its looks, and partly for our past perceptions of it as a blood-sucking, bottom-feeding trash fish*: the Pacific lamprey.