Tag: Golf Course Superintendent Association of America (GCSAA)

GCSAA announces scholar award winners

September 1, 2015 By
The Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) has honored Scott Watson with the $6,000 Chet Mendenhall Award, the top prize in the association’s 2015 Scholars Competition. The $30,000 program is primarily funded by the Robert Trent Jones Endowment and is administered by ...

Read More

Federal judge blocks Clean Water Rule for 13 states

August 28, 2015 By
Late on Aug. 27 a federal judge in North Dakota blocked the Clean Water Rule (CWR) for 13 states, hours before Aug. 28 when it was due to take effect. The CWR is authored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...

Read More

GCSAA hires Robert Helland to boost industry advocacy efforts

August 25, 2015 By
The Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) has hired Robert Helland in an effort to increase golf industry presence with policymakers. Helland, who served as the GCSAA’s Washington-based federal lobbyist from the law firm of Reed Smith LLC for the ...

Read More
Joel Jackson

WOTUS is really ‘Woe Unto Us!’

August 5, 2015 By
The new Waters of the U.S. regulatory effort by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers, known as WOTUS, is so far reaching it is more of a PR project to give the appearance of protecting the ...

Read More
Photo: Grant Gannon, North Coast Media

Five things to know about WOTUS

July 29, 2015 By
If you were on Twitter yesterday you might have seen the discouraging news about the EPA and U.S. Army Corp of Engineers’ new WOTUS (Waters of the United States) rule that will start on Aug. 28. Golfdom sat in on the recent GCSAA-hosted ...

Read More

Back to the future

May 18, 2015 By
Last summer I wrote about the complex water regulatory system in California and since then Gov. Jerry Brown went to the mountaintop and discovered much to his surprise that he couldn’t even build a snowman because of the skimpy snow ...

Read More