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  • September

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    Sacramento District helps develop efficient regional-based permitting for the future

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District regulatory team has worked with civic leaders, federal and state agencies, and conservationists to help shape development and ecosystem preservation for perhaps the next 50 years in a huge piece of California’s Central Valley.

  • June

    Heidi Simko, a regulatory assistant for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, is presented the Commander's Award from Col. David Ray, Sacramento District commander on May 24, 2017. Simko was named District Regulator of the Year for 2016, earning the Randy Snyder Regulatory Excellence Award.

    Simko named Sacramento District Regulator of the Year

    Heidi Simko, a regulatory assistant for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, has been named the 2016 District Regulator of the Year and awarded the Randy Snyder Regulatory Excellence Award. She earned the award for her “outstanding reliability, can-do spirit and unwavering commitment to the team and the regulatory mission throughout the year,” said Mike Jewell, chief of Regulatory Division.
  • Amanda Fuller, deputy district counsel for real estate, civil works and civil works contracting for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District.

    Amanda Fuller: Introspective, funny, genuine … lawyer?

    “Sometimes lawyers don’t understand how uncomfortable conflict is for other people,” says Amanda Fuller, deputy district counsel for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District. “The Socratic Method is at the heart of law school – you study in a state of constant questioning. Every sentence you say in law school is open to challenge from the instructor or your colleagues." She admits a fondness for spirited discourse.
  • Cory Koger, a senior chemist with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, talks about various species of bees during a lunchtime “brown bag” event on April 20 in Sacramento. The Corps now takes into consideration endangered species of bees when working on cleanup and restoration projects in order to avoid harming the bees or their habitat.

    Weapons of mass production: Corps to defend bee habitat

    In 2006, adult honeybees started to disappear from hives. Few, if any, dead bees were found in or around the hives. They were simply vanishing. Once so prevalent they were taken for granted, the decline of bees has increasingly brought them into the spotlight as an important species that needs protection.

  • May

    Skull Valley Reservation, Utah.

    District, Goshute Tribe and interagency partners work toward flood resiliency in Skull Valley

    If you want to build resistance to floods, you first need a team with a plan. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District and interagency partners are building a floodplain management plan with the Skull Valley Goshute Tribe in Utah.