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A successfully reimagined lawn will be sustainable and require minimal or no watering, said Mr. Bittner, who, as the director of natural areas for the botanic gardens, manages 3,600 acres, including about a third of the Cornell University campus.
It will not need fertilizer or pesticides, he said. And the new version will require mowing only once or twice a year, significantly reducing the more than 800 million gallons of gasoline used annually to fuel the country’s lawn mowers and resulting carbon dioxide emissions.
The Cornell project is also looking to identify plants that, once established, will require minimal hand weeding and will form a community that is at least 85 percent native, supporting a diversity of native insects and other animals.
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