Center for Urban Ecosystems and Sustainability - CUES
The Center for Urban Ecosystems and Sustainability (CUES) was created in 1995 with a grant from the Minnesota Extension Service. CUES is an interdisciplinary program with participants from the Colleges of Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Sciences; Biological Sciences; Natural Resources; and Landscape Architecture. The mission of CUES is to educate landscape managers and urban residents about ways to embrace environmental stewardship by practicing sustainable management. A landscape managed through sustainable methods requires low inputs of labor, fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides. Excessive use of these chemicals can pollute surface and ground water and disturb natural ecosystem processes.
Sustainable management embraces four major principles: 1) conserving bio-diversity: 2) restoring native vegetation: 3) promoting nutrient recycling through composting: 4) using integrated pest management to control insects and diseases.
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