Golf Courses

Golf courses are a huge tourism draw for many communities. Most golf courses involve the removal of all forests, the use of pesticides and insecticides, the chronic use of machinery and influence environmental pathways. Over the past few decades people have been creating more sustainable ways to create and maintain golf courses but the interruption to wildlife and soil pollutants still provide reasons to be worried. Any landscaped land will have their negative impacts and with increases in infrastructure there is already a great increase in land development.

Allowing more natural vegetation and supporting native wildlife is a more sustainable way to build open spaces. This thinking can be used in parking lots, ski hills and recreation centres as well. Throughout Kamloops, it's clear that the city planner does not like trees in public spaces, and yes, they require more fiscal and safety planning, but they do help counteract some impacts of land use development that is not actually essential for human life.

Sources:

Peña, C. (2014). Environmental impacts by golf courses and strategies to minimize them: state of the art. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos-Pena-30/publication/270510886_Environmental_impacts_by_golf_courses_and_strategies_to_minimize_them_state_of_the_art/links/54ac6a040cf21c477139f5cf/Environmental-impacts-by-golf-courses-and-strategies-to-minimize-them-state-of-the-art.pdf​