Economic Stimulus Opportunities

ASLA has produced a guide to economic stimulus opportunities that outlines U.S. federal government stimulus opportunities for landscape architects and other design professionals. Federal opportunities are organized into the following sections: transportation, water, sustainable design, climate change, small business, and government procurement.

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Wasps used to monitor emerald ash borer - UPI.com

Maine has developed an early-warning system to spot infestations of the emerald ash borer beetle. Because the invasive beetles are nearly impossible to detect in trees before it is too late, thousands of volunteers with nets are catching wasps who may be carrying captured ash borer larvae back to their young.

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