OMAHA, Nebraska, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Omaha District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District (Corps) has conducted an environmental analysis in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended. The final Integrated Feasibility Report and Environmental Assessment (IFR/EA) dated July 2022 for the Lower Brule North Ecosystem Restoration Project addresses ecosystem restoration and cultural and natur  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following decision (Docket No. FD 36697) entitled "The State of South Dakota Acting by and through its Department of Transportation - Petition For Declaratory Order": * * * Digest:/1 The Board grants the State of South Dakota's petition for an order declaring that Dakota Southern Railway's operating rights over a segment of state-owned rail line are terminated. It also grants the State's requ  more

HOT SPRINGS, South Dakota, Aug. 23 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 607,418 visitors to Wind Cave National Park in 2022 spent $52.7 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 741 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $75 million. "Since 1916, the National Park Service has been entrusted with the care of our national parks.  more

YANKTON, South Dakota, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Omaha District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct vegetation management activities during the month of September on sandbars in the Missouri River between Yankton and Vermillion, S.D., the upper portion of Lewis and Clark Lake near Springfield S.D. and Niobrara, N.E., and as far upstream as Pickstown, S.D. to keep the sandbars free of vegetation and usable by the threatened Piping Pl  more