A smaller government means big opportunities for landscape architects. With the recent downsizing of many federal agencies, from the National Park Service (NPS) to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), much landscape architecture work is now being outsourced. In 1995, for example, the Denver Service Center (DSC), the NPS' largest regional office, had more than 800 employees, many of whom were landscape architects and planners. The language in this year's appropriations bill allows for fewer than 400 employees at the DSC. The NPS is now mandated to contract out ninety percent of design services, a potential boon to landscape architecture firms—if they know how to play the game.
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