Environment-friendly Golf Courses

Golf course owners and industry leaders are leading a growing trend to build environment-friendly golf courses.

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July 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Growing wave of golf course superintendents, owners and industry leaders who value wildlife and natural habitat as much as low scores and regular customers...

Decades ago, course construction often consisted of bulldozing land and mapping out holes with little regard for what was there before. Wildlife? It could find somewhere else to live...

Audubon certification involves six ongoing steps, including satisfying questions about safe environmental planning, water conservation and wildlife and habitat management."

Thanks to Sustainablog

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