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  • January

    Rhonda Lucas and Ranger Katie McGillvray program bat monitoring equipment to record bat calls at Lake Washington Ship Canal.

    District conducts bat surveys as white-nose syndrome moves westward

    Working against time and the inevitable spread of a disease threatening bat populations across the country, Seattle District personnel are conducting wildlife surveys to determine which species live on Corps lands and if they are healthy.

  • December

    Contractors record and pack soil samples for testing.

    Bioremediation: Enlisting bacteria to battle contaminants

    "While most people don’t think of the Corps as leaders in groundwater remediation, our recent cutting edge successes at the Umatilla Chemical Depot and Naval Base Kitsap are starting to change that." --Mandy Michalsen, senior scientist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle Disctrict, and technical lead for the bioremediation project

  • May

    To provide a cleaner waterfowl feeding ground in the midst of an area contaminated from historic mining operations, the Seattle District, recently finished transforming agricultural lands into wetland habitat at a privately owned farm east of Lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

    Transforming agricultural lands into wetlands: Corps cleans lands, provides cleaner feeding ground

    To provide a cleaner waterfowl feeding ground in the midst of an area contaminated from historic mining operations, Seattle District, recently finished transforming agricultural lands into wetland habitat at a privately owned farm east of Lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.