Most engines are used for recreational boating. The average marine engine causes considerably more damage than a car engine for each hour it operates because they have far less effective emission controls. Flawless, ultragreen havens surrounded by suburbs and country and even wilderness. So pristine, who would ever imagine that golf courses could be hazardous to the environment?
In the last twenty years, since the dawn of ecological awareness, a case has been building against those seemingly innocuous places. Golf courses are encountering the same hard scrutiny as freeways and factory yards.
When a developer builds a golf course, they have to go through one environmental hearing after another before they get approval to start. There are more than 13, golf courses in the U. An average of courses are built annually, each consuming approximately acres. This gobbling up of the land is furthering the depletion of wildlife habitats.
Those animals that are attracted to the meadow-like expanses are met with flying balls, electric carts, and a relentless parade of humans. Sep 05, Nov 09, Hiking, hunting has minor effects on mammals in protected eastern forests Jun 07, Apr 22, Sep 09, Recommended for you. Mangrove restoration has ecological and economic benefits, report reveals 5 hours ago.
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