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Environmental Quality + Land Use

Environmental Quality + Land Use

Progress Indicators

Percent of core campus acreage managed organically, without synthetic fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides or fungicides

Re-inventory of all campus trees, and establish a baseline woodland campus canopy cover measurement.

Campus canopy cover.

*Placed on a scale of 40% (i.e. possible canopy cover)

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Landscape Services

From grounds maintenance to tree care, Landscape Services ensures that our campus is beautiful, functional, and clean. This responsibility includes stewarding our natural spaces, reducing chemical applications where possible, and removing waste from outdoor spaces.

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Research + Teaching Preserve

Under the wing of the Integrated Program in the Environment, learn through hands-on research at seven different properties owned by the Preserve!

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A resilient campus landscape

We strive to improve our campus' water and air quality, and to reduce our chemical footprint. After receiving an Innovation Fund grant in 2018, Landscape Services is in the process of increasing the amount of organic waste composted and reused on-campus.

In addition, the Environmental Quality and Land Use Working Group completed a GIS tree inventory for 2016 and 2019, collecting the condition, GPS coordinates, size, species, maintenance needs, and other valuable notes of interest on over 12,000 trees and stumps. The working group is currently evaluating changes to the woodland campus and making recommendations to improve campus landscape resilience.