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Landscape Career Pathways update [infographic] Email

ALCC’s Landscape Career Pathways program continues to grow, doing more than just raising awareness of career opportunities in the landscape industry. The program is training students to be job-ready, through Career & Technical Education at high schools along the Front Range and offering irrigation boot camps for existing employees who want to learn or improve their skills.
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OSHA outlines enforcement of silica standard Email

worksite dustThe U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently issued a memorandum outlining the initial enforcement of the standard for respirable crystalline silica in general industry and maritime. Most provisions of the standard became enforceable on June 23, 2018. The standard establishes a new 8-hour time-weighted average permissible exposure limit, action level, and associated ancillary requirements.
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Social media: keep it short, make it visual Email

ALCC recently attended Facebook Community Boost Denver, a free conference designed to help small businesses use Facebook and Instagram more effectively. Over the next few months, Colorado Green NOW will feature some of the lessons learned at this event.
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Top performers from CSU offer more plant diversity Email

Sugar mapleIn addition to the usual factors for tree selection, such as cold hardiness, soil tolerance, water needs and mature size, species diversity should be a critical consideration. To create species diversity, plant no more than 10 percent of any single species, 20 percent of any genus and 30 percent of any family, especially in larger landscape settings.

Colorado State University continues its woody plant evaluation research, collecting data yearly. Consider the following eight woody plant species to add more tree diversity in your urban application.
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House to vote on bill containing returning worker exemption for H-2B Email
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Written by Christy Eull   
Tuesday, June 26, 2018 12:00 AM

The House Judiciary Committee issued a media release outlining H.R. 6136, the Border Security and Immigration Reform Act. According to the release, this bill contains a "Returning Worker Exemption for H-2B Visas: The bill now provides that any guestworker counted against the H-2B cap during either of the prior two fiscal years is not counted against the cap for the current fiscal year. The H-2B guest worker program is used by American employers to hire foreign workers for temporary and seasonal work, such as forestry, seafood processing, and other industries."
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