Positive Waves From The Golf Courses ( Card )
Introduction
Golf Industry Creates Positive Waves For Society
Paying Golfers Deserve Thicker, Greener, Attractive,
Pest-Free, & Safe Golf Courses As Urban Green Spaces
Golf course superintendents can be described as the planet’s great conservationists who have been maintaining and conserving the world’s largest ground cover vegetation ― turfgrass ― for hundreds of years.
Universally, « correct and disciplined » main-stream golf course superintendents are professionals who are paid to take care of golf courses ― they manage the budgets, man-power, materials, and schedules needed to correctly maintain high-quality playing conditions and aesthetics for paying golf-customers.
Superintendents constantly monitor the health of turfgrasses through careful observation, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases, insects, weeds, and abiotic disorders.
Their skilled management of turfgrass pests is accomplished by the correct and necessary use of conventional pest control products.
Their use of pest control products to enhance golf courses, which is also good for the environment.
And, these products are government-approved, federally-legal, scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, and will cause no harm.
Their use has contributed extensively to the high-quality playing conditions and aesthetics of golf courses, and the preservation of the environment.
The Audubon Co-Operative Sanctuary Program For Golf
Additionally, superintendents have adopted many outstanding, innovative, and interesting ideas, such as The Audubon Co-Operative Sanctuary Program For Golf.
These superintendents create POSITIVE WAVES for our society by maintaining golf courses that are good for the environment.
See later segments.
And go see more outstanding, innovative, and interesting ideas by exploring the following links …
Positive Waves For Society
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/positive-waves-library/
Benefits Of Turfgrasses
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/positive-waves-benefits/
Planet’s Great Conservationists
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/positive-waves/
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The Golf Course Superintendents, The Planet’s Great Conservationists
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Summary
Audubon Co-Operative Sanctuary Program For Golf
Not so long ago, the golf industry was viewed as using too much water, and too many chemicals.
Golf courses were not seen as environmentally-friendly.
The golf industry has evolved into being a much more environmentally-aware and environmentally-conscious.
Audubon International is willing to stand shoulder to shoulder with the golf industry.
Of the thousands of golf courses across Canada, a mere 74 have joined The Audubon Co-Operative Sanctuary Program For Golf, as of 2018.
The Audubon Co-Operative Sanctuary Program For Golf is designed to continue the environmental improvement that golf is going through, and to provide a way for the golf industry, the non-playing public, and golfers, to see how they are doing.
As a business benefit, there are certainly marketing and positioning benefits to be realized with Audubon.
A certified member club can use the program in their marketing to set themselves apart from their competition.
Audubon courses at private clubs can instill a sense of ownership among the members as well as a sense of camaraderie among the employees.
The main benefit of The Audubon Co-Operative Sanctuary Program For Golf is doing the right thing.
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Positive Waves
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December 2018
Golf Industry Network.ca
Selected And Adapted Excerpts
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Reference — Audubon — 2018 12 15 — The Audubon Co-Operative Sanctuary Program For Golf
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Positive Waves – The Audubon Co-Operative Sanctuary Program For Golf
Audubon International
In many ways, they seem like strange bed-fellows, but, in fact, golf courses and Audubon International are ON THE SAME SIDE.
They are either trying to prove that golf courses ARE NOT, or at least DO NOT NEED TO BE, the evil villains that many environmentalists make them out to be.
According to Ms Christine Kane, CEO of Audubon International ―
Golf has evolved over time to be a much more ENVIRONMENTALLY-AWARE and ENVIRONMENTALLY-CONSCIOUS sport and business.
Twenty years ago, golf was looked at as using TOO MUCH WATER, and TOO MANY CHEMICALS, so it was not seen as an environmental ally.
Over the years that has changed for the better.
So, while Audubon International is willing to stand shoulder to shoulder with golf courses in the battle for the hearts and souls of the general public, it is surprising how few Canadian facilities have taken advantage of it.
Of the thousands of golf courses across Canada, a mere 74 have joined The Audubon Co-Operative Sanctuary Program For Golf.
[ Provinces With Audubon Certified Member Clubs In Canada As Of 2018 12 00 ― • Alberta ( 20 ) • British Columbia ( 12 ) • Manitoba ( 1 ) • Nova Scotia ( 2 ) • Ontario ( 39 ) • Prince Edward Island ( 1 ) • Quebec ( 9 ). See later segment for more details. ]
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Positive Waves – The Audubon Co-Operative Sanctuary Program For Golf
Joining The Program
Okay, it is not as simple as just signing up.
There is a program you have to go through to become a Certified Member Club, and yes, there is a cost.
It is $350 ( US ) a year to be a member of Audubon International.
Once you become certified, and you go through a re-certification program every three years, you have the right to advertise your golf facility as a Certified Member Club.
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Positive Waves – The Audubon Co-Operative Sanctuary Program For Golf
Categories Of The Program
The program is designed to continue the environmental improvement that golf is going through, and to provide a way for the golf industry, the non-playing public, and golfers, to see how they are doing.
According to Ms Christine Kane, CEO of Audubon International ―
The ACSP Program for Golf has six areas [ i.e. categories ] that golf courses must achieve before they can be certified.
First, everyone has to start with a Site Assessment and Environmental Plan.
You have to see where you are to know where you’re going.
You have to provide us with that information so we can help you with suggestions and information.
You have to do that first, then the next five, you can do in whatever order makes the most sense for you.
The other five categories that have to be addressed are ―
• Chemical Use Reduction [ ? ] & Safety
• Outreach & Education
• Water Conservation
• Water Quality Management
• Wildlife & Habitat Management
Kane says that some of those [ i.e. categories ] are self-explanatory, like trying to reduce your water, and making the most efficient use of water through design and technology.
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Positive Waves – The Audubon Co-Operative Sanctuary Program For Golf
Wildlife & Habitat Management
Wildlife & Habitat Management is one area that really seems to strike a chord with both golfers and non-golfers alike.
According to Ms Christine Kane, CEO of Audubon International ―
Many golf courses have excellent opportunities for both long-term habitat use and migratory habitat use for birds and other animals.
On average, about 30 per cent of a golf course property is actually used for golf and the rest is out of play areas, or facilities, so there are plenty of opportunities to create native areas.
That could be by removing invasive plants and replanting with native plants that birds, or foxes, or deer, or monarch butterflies, that need milkweed, can use.
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Positive Waves – The Audubon Co-Operative Sanctuary Program For Golf
Benefits Of The Program
So, if you’re a golf course owner or general manager, why should you be thinking about talking to your superintendent about The Audubon Co-Operative Sanctuary Program For Golf ?!?!
According to Ms Christine Kane, CEO of Audubon International ―
The main BENEFIT is doing the right thing.
From a business perspective, there are certainly marketing and positioning BENEFITS to be realized.
We encourage courses to use this in their marketing to set themselves apart from their competition.
We hear that in private clubs, it instills a sense of ownership among the members and a sense of camaraderie among the employees.
Audubon provides logos to certified member clubs that can even be incorporated into club merchandise.
Ms Kane also provides this food for thought ―
The next generation of golfers, the millennials and the Gen Zs are going to EXPECT this.
They are going to EXPECT that everyone should be doing their part for the environment.
Very soon we’re going to reach the point where if your golf course is not doing this, then you’re going to stick out, and that’s a big change.
I think this is going to be a big wake up call for a lot of owners.
For more on The Audubon Co-Operative Sanctuary Program For Golf, you can visit its web-site.
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Positive Waves – The Audubon Co-Operative Sanctuary Program For Golf
Niagara Parks Commission Golf Courses
Wildlife & Habitat Management is one aspect of the program that Mr Tom Newton is quite familiar with.
Mr Newton is the Senior Golf Superintendent for the Niagara Parks Commission and oversees their three golf courses.
The two courses at Legends On The Niagara were certified under The Audubon Co-Operative Sanctuary Program For Golf in 2014 and re-certified in 2017.
Mr Newton is also in the process of getting certification for their Whirlpool Course.
As a result of improving the Wildlife & Habitat Management at Legends On The Niagara, Mr Newton says they regularly see deer, wild turkey, foxes, coyotes, Canada geese, bald eagles, hawks, and endangered snapping turtles, as well as an abundance of fish in their ponds.
The turtles have taken to laying their eggs in the sand traps and the maintenance staff, who have come to feel a connection with the program, immediately fence that small area of the bunker off with a sign explaining why and advising golfers to take a free drop somewhere else in the trap.
According to Mr Tom Newton ―
I’m passionate myself about doing the right thing for the environment.
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Positive Waves – The Audubon Co-Operative Sanctuary Program For Golf
Certified Member Clubs In Canada As Of 2018 12 00
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Beacon Hall Golf Club
Bigwin Island Golf Club
Cardinal Golf Club
Cedar Brae Golf & Country Club
Donalda Club
Glen Abbey Golf Club
Granite Golf Club
Greensmere Golf & Country Club
Hamilton Golf & Country Club
King’s Riding Golf Club
Ladies’ Golf Club Of Toronto
Lake Joseph Golf Club
Legends On The Niagara
Loyalist Country Club
Markham Green Golf Club
Markl& Wood Golf Club
Mississaugua Golf & Country Club
Oakdale Golf & Country Club
Oslerbrook Golf & Country Club
Ottawa Hunt & Golf Club, Limited
Petawawa Golf Club
Pheasant Run Golf Club
RiverBend Golf Club ― Community
Rocky Crest Golf Club
Scarboro Golf & Country Club
Springfield Golf & Country Club
Saint George’s Golf & Country Club
Saint Thomas Golf & Country Club
Station Creek Golf Club
Stonebridge Golf Club
Sunningdale Golf & Country Club
The Ridge At Manitou Golf Club
The Rock Golf Club
The Toronto Golf Club
Thornhill Country Club
Westview Golf Club
Whitevale Golf Club
Wooden Sticks Golf Club
York Downs Golf & Country Club
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Calgary Golf & Country Club
Canmore Golf & Curling Club
Country Hills Golf Club
D’Arcy Ranch Golf Club
Earl Grey Golf Club
Fairmont Banff Springs Golf Course
Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge Golf Club
Highwood Golf & Country Club
Innisfail Golf Club
Lethbridge Country Club
Olds Central Highlands Golf Course
Paradise Canyon Golf Resort
Priddis Greens Golf & Country Club
Royal Mayfair Golf Club
Silvertip Resort
Stewart Creek Golf & Country Club
The Glencoe Golf & Country Club
The Winston Golf Club
Turner Valley Golf & Country Club
Willow Park Golf & Country Club
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Capilano Golf & Country Club
Cordova Bay Golf Course
Fairmont Chateau Whistler Golf Club
Fraserview Golf Course
Gleneagles Golf Course
Highland Pacific Golf
McCleery Golf Club
Point Grey Golf & Country Club
Salmon Arm Golf Club
Uplands Golf Club
Vancouver Parks Board ― Langara Golf
Whistler Golf Club
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Beaconsfield Golf Club
Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello Golf Club
Hillsdale Golf & Country Club
Mount Bruno Country Club
Rivermead Golf Club
Royal Ottawa Golf Club
Summerlea Golf & Country Club
The Royal Montreal Golf Club
Whitlock Golf & Country Club
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Cabot Cliffs
Cabot Links
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Saint Charles Country Club
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Links At Crowbush Cove Golf Course
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Explore the following links …
Audubon
According to Mr Ronald G Dodson, Founder & First President of Audubon International ―
Brown Is NOT Better Than Green
Efficient Turfgrass Management
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Negative Waves With Activist-Superintendents ( Card )
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Background Information
Description Of Activist-Superintendents
« Activist-Superintendents » Can
Only Be Described As Failures
They Are Most Certainly Not The
Planet’s Great Conservationists
Unfortunately, some golf facilities are infested with so-called « activist-superintendents ».
They reject « correct and disciplined » turf maintenance practices that provide paying golf-customers with high-quality playing conditions and aesthetics.
What possible benefit can be touted by « activist-superintendents » for unilaterally and arbitrarily adopting incorrect and undisciplined doctrines ?!?!
They allow themselves to become distracted with failed, unproven, incorrect, and undisciplined doctrines that DO NOT WORK, such as …
• go brown anti-cosmetic golf maintenance • fertilizer nutrient reduction • integrated pest management practices ( IPM ) • Micah’s MLSN cheat sheet • minimal levels for sustainable nutrition • organic maintenance • Pace Turf’s climate appraisal • self-imposing restrictions & prohibitions against pesticides & fossil fuels • spot spray & spot treatment replacing blanket application • switching to ineffective green alternative pesticides • zero cultivation & reduced core aeration.
These doctrines are NOT outstanding, NOT innovative, and NOT interesting ideas ― they are all FAILURES !
Do « activist-superintendents » understand that they are not employed to experiment with doctrines that DO NOT WORK ?!?!
Why do they chose to ignore the overwhelming science-based, time-tested, correct, and disciplined turf maintenance practices ?!?!
Especially when the alternative is dead grass and useless playing surfaces.
Consequently, « activist-superintendents » create NEGATIVE WAVES for the golf industry.
Many observers believe that « activist-superintendents » represent the greatest threats to the golf industry today.
Their use of incorrect and undisciplined maintenance doctrines may be considered as attacks against the Golf Industry.
By adopting these doctrines, observers question the « activist-superintendents’ » ability and competence to provide what paying golf-customers demand … high-quality playing conditions and aesthetics.
Those golf courses where these incorrect maintenance doctrines have been adopted can expect to have dead grass and useless playing surfaces.
Who wants to play golf on #@!!% pest-infested garbage dumps ?!?!
Should the adoption of these doctrines become grounds for termination ?!?!
In order to deter « activist-superintendents », perhaps a Master Plan For Correct Turf Maintenance Practices should be written into their contracts.
These activists simply do not deserve to work in the golf industry that they threaten, attack, and betray.
They are not paid to be activists ― they are paid to satisfy paying golf-customers with high-quality playing conditions and aesthetics.
Do golf-customers really want to tolerate the #@!!% nonsense of incorrect and undisciplined maintenance doctrines of « activist-superintendents » ?!?!
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Why Don’t You Knock It Off With Them NEGATIVE WAVES ?!?! ( Card )
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Explore the following links …
Negative Waves
The Confessions Of An Activist-Superintendent
Activist-Superintendents On The Sunshine Coast
Activist-Superintendents In The District Of Saanich
Go Brown Doctrine Adopted By Activist-Superintendents
Golf Course Damaged Because No One Applied Pesticides
Owners Fail To Demand High-Quality Playing Conditions
Playing On #@!!% Garbage Dump Golf Courses
Photo Gallery That Includes Golf Courses
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/carnage-leading-to-garbage-dump-green-spaces-photo-gallery/
Issues That Must Be Addressed By The Golf Industry
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/golf-industry-critical-issues/
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Explore the following links …
Positive Waves
Library About Positive Waves For Society
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/positive-waves-library/
Library About The Benefits Of Turfgrasses
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/positive-waves-benefits/
Planet’s Great Conservationists
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/positive-waves/
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NORAHG FON ( Card )
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We Speak The Whole Truth
About Positive Waves For Society
From An Independent Perspective
We are the National Organization Responding Against HUJE that conspire to destroy the Green space & other industries ( NORAHG ).
NORAHG is a non-profit & independent organization that reports on the work of several highly-rated leading experts who have recognized expertise, training, & backgrounds in matters concerning pest control products, & who promote environmental realism & pesticide truths.
NORAHG produces A Look At … & Force Of Nature reports & blogs which are destined for the green space industry, nation-wide across Canada, the United States, & overseas, & can be found on The Pesticide Truths Web-Site … https://pesticidetruths.com/
A Look At … & Force Of Nature reports & blogs were the brain-child of William H Gathercole ( now retired ) & his colleagues.
Here is a brief summary of Mr Gathercole’s career ―
FIELDS OF UNIVERSITY STUDY ― • Crop, Horticulture, & Turfgrass Sciences • Mathematics & Physics
ALMA MATERS ― • McGill University • University of Guelph • the first person ever to obtain bachelors of science degrees & contribute directly to both the professional lawn care & golf maintenance industries.
EXPERTISE ― • turf & ornamental maintenance & troubleshooting • history of the green space industry • sales & distribution of seeds, chemicals, fertilizers, & equipment • fertilizer manufacturing & distribution • environmental issues & anti-pesticide terrжrism.
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SPECIAL CONTRIBUTIONS ― • the creator of the Pesticide Ban Exception Status that allowed the golf industry to avoid being subjected to anti-pesticide prohibition for a generation • the creator of the signs that are now used for posting after application • the co-founder of annual winter convention for Quebec golf course superintendents • the founder of the first ever Turf Summit with guest Dr Jack L Eggens https://wp.me/p1jq40-7dT • the major influence in the decision by Canadian Cancer Society to stop selling-for-profit fresh pesticide-treated daffodils https://wp.me/P1jq40-1OW • the only true reliable witness of the events of anti-pesticide prohibition in the town of Hudson, Quebec https://wp.me/p1jq40-asu • the founder ( now retired ) of A Look At … & Force Of Nature reports & blogs.
NOTABLE AWARD ― • the first man-of-the-year for contributions leading to the successful founding of the Quebec professional lawn care trade association, which served as a beach-head against anti-pesticide activists in the 1980s & 1990s.
LEGACIES ― Mr Gathercole & his colleagues … • designed & implemented strategies that reined anti-pesticide activists & provided peace & prosperity for the entire modern green space industry for a generation • orchestrated legal action against anti-pesticide activists in the town of Hudson, Quebec • launched the largest founding professional lawn care business in the nation • quadrupled the business revenues of one of the largest suppliers in the nation.
Mr Gathercole is now retired, although his name continues to appear as the founder of A Look At … & Force Of Nature reports & blogs.
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