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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are almost NO environmental benefits to a golf course.

The only thing they offer that an asphalt parking lot doesn’t is a moderate reduction in surface water run off. Other than that, they are ecological wastelands, devoid of an insect community and pollinators, small animals, reptiles and amphibians, and most birdlife. Even the water hazards, which should be oasises of life, are typically dead zones devoid of fish and other life because of fertilizer run off and aquatic herbicides to kill algae blooms from excess nitrates from the grass fertilizer.

That is the reality of a golf course. A green, attractive, toxic desert, that requires far more water than an equivalent meadow or forest.

They really are disgusting [/quote]

You clearly have never been on a golf course.  Stay in your own lane, whatever that is. [/quote]

I’ve been on plenty of golf courses back when I was an undergrad working on my environmental engineering degree. That’s how I know so much about them. And the havoc the wreak on local ecosystems.

It would appear that MY lane, as a scientist, makes me far more informed about golf courses than whatever expertise you have with them in your lane. I suspect your knowledge of them consists only of: trying to get below a 24 handicap and sexually harassing the beer cart hostess at the 19th hole. [/quote]

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