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A golf course designed to be respectful of the environment doesn’t just happen.  It takes planning, collaboration, supervision and cooperation of everyone involved from the time an idea is put on paper to opening day and beyond.  The developer, designers, contractors and maintenance personnel must all support the notion of minimizing the impacts to the site, and complementing or enhancing the site’s natural features.  They should all assume the mind set of environmentalists.

For a golf course to be considered environmentally sound, its maintenance practices should be judged by the effect it has on the ecosystem and conversely how the surrounding open spaces are maintained, affecting the visual quality of and access to sulight and airflow to maintain healthy turf on the course over time.

The purpose of the Land Management Plan binder is two-fold.  The first purpose is to be a working tool for the Chechessee Creek Club staff.  It serves as our “collective” memory of why decisions were made to keep us all working toward the same goals.  It’s a scrapbook, rather than a polished publication.  Also, it is a way to organize references for the basis of land management decisions.

The second purpose is to explore and report how the Chechessee Creek Club can be used most effectively as a research/demonstration site to promote best environmental management practices on other golf courses.  This includes demonstrating the process that a club can use to conduct a self-evaluation of its own course.  Key elements of this process are learning to ask the right questions, finding answers to these questions, and involving Club personnel in the implementation of proposed solutions.

Download more information about the Chechessee Creek Land Management Plan.