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At Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, the installation built a pollinator garden to promote bee colony health. This garden likely supports other desired co-benefits as well, like water quality improvement and preservation of green space.

Oct. 8, 2019

Combining Partnerships with Recycled Material for Creative (and Sometimes Edible) Results

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — Across the Air Force, some installations are establishing organic gardens for a variety of reasons: to grow food, to beautify the installation, or to provide habitat and otherwise enhance natural resources.

JBLE celebrates Earth Day

May 1, 2019

JBLE celebrates Earth Week

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — Earth Day is an international holiday celebrated around the world April 22nd to demonstrate support for environmental protection and the significance of preserving natural resources. JBLE recognized the occasion by sponsoring numerous conservation themed events on the installations from April 22 to April 26.

With Earth Day right around the corner, Joint Base Langley-Eustis will celebrate by kicking off their straw-free campaign April 22, 2019.

April 17, 2019

Langley AFB goes straw-free

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — With Earth Day right around the corner, Joint Base Langley-Eustis will celebrate by kicking off their straw-free campaign April 22, 2019.

If you see this, report it to the Fire Department at 764-4222

March 19, 2019

World Water Day

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — World Water Day is March 22, 2019

Staff Sgt. Manoj Williams, a 375th Civil Engineering Squadron electrical systems craftsman, greases framework knife blades and tightens loose conductor connections April 9, 2016, at Scott Air Force Base, Ill. The base required a scheduled power outage to repair critical high-voltage electrical components. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman Daniel Garcia)

Dec. 4, 2017

AF Installation Cyberattack Plans tested during national grid exercise

WASHINGTON (AFNS) — Recently, 32 Air Force installations and representatives from Headquarters Air Force took part in the two-day national Grid Security Exercise IV, or GridEx IV, to simulate a coordinated response to cyber and physical security threats to North America's electricity grid and other critical infrastructure.

An Air Force Reserve aircrew flying a C-130 Hercules assigned to the 910th Airlift Wing, Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, performs a mosquito control aerial spray mission over Grand Forks Air Force Base. The spray team, which uses a specially-modified C-130H aircraft and Modular Aerial Spray Systems, make low passes around the spray areas at an altitude of 100-150 feet. They disperse pesticides which target areas of standing water where mosquito larvae breed. The purpose of the mission is to lower the number of irritations and infections associated with mosquito bites, as well as minimize the threat of West Nile Virus. This is the first scheduled spray of three here for 2011. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Johnny Saldivar)

July 26, 2017

633 ABW battles mosquitos: Calls in 757 Airlift Squadron

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — The 757th Airlift Squadron will conduct their mosquito aerial spray mission over Langley Air Force Base and Craney Island on the night of August 1, 2017. In the event of inclement weather, spraying will occur on the alternate date, August 2, 2017.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Dongpyo Yi, 733rd Logistics Readiness Squadron customer service supervisor, gathers trash during the 29th annual Clean the Bay Day at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., June 3, 2017. The volunteer’s efforts affect the Chesapeake Bay, part of which falls along Langley Air Force Base, Va.’s, shoreline, and is one of America’s largest seafood suppliers, according to the National Park Service. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Derek Seifert)

June 7, 2017

Taking care of community: JBLE takes action annually at Clean the Bay Day

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Dongpyo Yi, 733rd Logistics Readiness Squadron customer service supervisor, gathers trash during the 29th annual Clean the Bay Day at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., June 3, 2017. The volunteer’s efforts affect the Chesapeake Bay, part of which falls along Langley Air Force Base, Va.’s, shoreline, and is one of America’s

Karen Terwilliger, a local environmental expert, looks out to brackish water shores ideal for Diamondback Terrapin Turtle reproduction at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., May 10, 2017. Langley Air Force Base has restored 3,000 linear feet of its shoreline and plans to restore an additional 329 feet this year, providing natural flood prevention, and an added benefit of more area for the turtles to lay eggs. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Natasha Stannard)

May 24, 2017

Last refuges for declining, rare, endangered species

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — “This area is perfect,” said Karen Terwilliger, a local environmental expert, as she pointed to a part of Langley Air Force Base’s shoreline that provides, not only a natural flood barrier, but a safe area for the Diamondback Terrapin Turtle, a declining species being surveyed at Langley AFB, to lay its eggs.

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Cody Martin, 633rd Communications Squadron client system technician, digs a hole to plant a tree on the nature trail at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., Jan. 6, 2017. Volunteers from JBLE helped relocate pollinator plants from Bethel Park Garden where weeds were impeding their ability to pollinate properly. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Kaylee Dubois)

Jan. 14, 2017

AF boosts environment with plant relocation

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. – — Volunteers helped the 633rd Civil Engineer Squadron relocate pollinator plants from the Bethel Park Pollinator Garden to the nature trail on Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., Jan. 6, 2017. Once an old dumping ground, the pollinator garden was installed at Bethel Park in 2014 in accordance with the National Public Lands Day project to help clean up the area. The garden plants provided food or habitat for pollinator organisms such as hummingbirds, bees, butterflies, and occasionally small mammals. A grant from the National Environmental Education Foundation and the Department of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program awarded funds to 633rd CES personnel to plant a garden, however, due to the location of the garden, it has been underutilized by the public and overgrown with weeds.