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Updates from ASLA

2025 ASLA Professional Awards General Design Award of Excellence. A Floating Forest: Fish Tail Park in Nanchang City. Turenscape. (Image Credit: Turenscape)

Landscape Architects Defend the 2024 Conservation and Landscape Health Rule

Landscape architects are speaking out against the BLM’s proposal to rescind the 2024 Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, which provides a science-based framework for protecting and restoring public lands. The rollback would prioritize extractive uses over conservation and remove key tools for restoration and public engagement. ASLA members are encouraged to sign the letter to support the health, resilience, and sustainable management of America’s public lands.Read More

ASLA Opposes EPA’s Proposal to Rescind the Endangerment Finding

ASLA recently sent a letter to the EPA opposing the repeal of the 2009 Endangerment Finding, emphasizing that greenhouse gas emissions drive extreme heat, flooding, biodiversity loss, and other threats to public health, safety, and the environment, and that science-based climate policy is essential.Read More