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The following excerpt is taken from the New American Golf Course
brochure published by the GCA Public Relations Committee.
The New American Golf Course
Golf is unlike sports that use a
standardized playing field. Golf uses the landscape and the environment.
Golf courses are opening at a rate of
1 per day for a current total of more
than 16,000. Most courses average 165 acres and approximately 50% of new golf courses have real estate
development surrounding the course.
Since
1913 The Garden Club of America has worked to improve the quality
of the environment. This brochure is intended to increase
awareness of the benefits of an environmentally managed golf
course.
This stewardship will result in:
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providing
habitat for wildlife;
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providing
greenspace benefits;
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managing
natural resources more efficiently, especially water;
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impacting
surrounding land by encouraging conservation efforts;
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providing conditions
with reduced risks of cancers and endocrine disruption for
players and grounds crew.
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III in the News
Zone III Club in Little Gull
Protect the West Spit and Western Braddock Bay
By Bob Mauceli
The excerpts below
were taken from an article that was published in the October 2004
issue of the Rochester Birding Association newsletter Little
Gull.
The Genesee Land Trust (GLT) and Braddock Bay Observatory (BBBO)
have asked the Rochester Birding Association to join them in the
purchase of five acres of land on Manitou Beach and Braddock Roads
in the Town of Greece.
The RBA, GLT, and BBBO will jointly develop and monitor a management
plan for birding and preservation of the migratory and breeding bird
habitat including development of a birding trail and removal of
invasive plants and replacement with native food and cover plants.
The total cost of the land, including acquisition costs and initial
stewardship expenses is $60,000. GLT has received a grant of $15,000
from the Allyn's Creek Garden Club toward that amount.
Zone III in the
New York Times
House & Home/Style Desk
The
excerpt below was taken from an article that was published in the New York Times on June 24, 2004.
If you are interested in reading the article in it's
entirety you can purchase a copy from the
New York Times.
Where Victorians Met Their Match
By KEN DRUSE (NYT)
Late Edition - Final , Section F , Page 1 , Column 4
Gardens, like memories, can grow
grander with time. Or they can be forgotten ... In the
early 1900's, Helena Rutherfurd Ely, a founding member
of the Garden Club of America, wrote three books
encouraging a generation of gardeners to abandon the
Victorian practice of ''bedding out'' garish colored
tender annuals...
Zone III Member in
Real Simple Magazine
May 2004
Grandmothers
By
Martha Fay
Page 231, Susan Prescott Locke Walker
Zone III in
The Villager
Volume 73, Number 31, December 3-9, 2003
Garden Party for Hudson River Park
By Jessica Mintz
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