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Abandoned golf courses are being reclaimed by nature (www.cnn.com)
submitted 8 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
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Golf courses, despite occupying large green spaces, are not necessarily good for the environment. Land is often cleared to make way for a fairway and maintaining the pristine turf often requires a lot of water, regular mowing and the spraying of fertilizers and pesticides – none of which is good for biodiversity.

In the US, with the number of course closures outweighing new openings every year since 2006, some are questioning how we should use these huge spaces – and asking whether, instead of golf, nature should be left to run its course.

Conservation nonprofits and local authorities are looking to acquire golf courses that have been abandoned due to high maintenance costs, low player numbers or other reasons, and repurpose them into landscapes that boost biodiversity and build natural defenses against climate change.

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[-] MisterChief@lemmy.world 61 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My local muni used to have 3 courses. They closed 1 in 2019 and have left it open to the public as a park with no maintenance going into the greens. There are 5 miles of cart paths, now trails, and it connects to an adjacent park with an additional 2 miles of trails. The golf course is barely recognizable and it has been really cool to see it slowly getting reclaimed by nature. There are a significantly larger amount of birds, small mammals, and deer seen there than even just two years ago. I rarely take pictures there but here are a couple that do a decent job at showing how little it looks like a golf course anymore. Both pictures were taken this year.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 30 points 8 months ago

I say this as a man born in Pinehurst, North Carolina: Let that goddamn retarded sport die a pathetic unmourned death.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Would love to see both golf and that ableist slur die in a fire.

[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz -5 points 8 months ago

Let that god-damned r-slur die a pathetic unmourned death.

[-] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 21 points 8 months ago

Golf courses, despite occupying large green spaces, are not necessarily good for the environment.

Bit of an understatement.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Golf, the sport of rich wastes of sperm, turns out to be not that great a thing to do to the planet.

Who'da thunk it, eh lads?

[-] Wander@yiffit.net 14 points 8 months ago

Nature is healing.

[-] Aux@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Convert all golf courses to MTB trails!

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