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Article: Green golf.(News: dispatches from around the world about healthy, sustainable living)(pesticides on golf course)(Brief Article)
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- Natural Life
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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The extensive use of pesticides on golf courses raises serious questions about people's toxic exposure, drift over neighboring communities, water contamination, and effects on wildlife and sensitive ecosystems. Increasingly, players and golf course managers are trying to reduce pesticide use on golf courses.
The Wawona Golf Course at Yosemite National Park has been certified by the Audubon International as an Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary after six years of research and planning. The golf course, which was established in 1918, uses no pesticides, uses fertilizer just once per year and is irrigated with reclaimed water, which provides needed nitrogen. Wawona's ...