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After Shutting Down, These Golf Courses Went Wild | Most defunct golf courses get paved over, but a number are getting transformed into ecological life rafts for wildlife, plants — and people. (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] spaghettiwestern 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Typical NYT BS when it comes to Palm Springs.

Palm Springs is a man-made oasis in the middle of a desert. A true "return to nature" means barren desert - no palm trees, no water, just sand and spotty low shrub. There are thousands of acres of just that in most of the Coachella Valley around Palm Springs and the land is desolate. The picture the NYT chose of the Prescott Preserve looking green, wet and inviting was taking during an unusually wet rainy season and that picture is not at all representative of the the natural state of the land in this desert.

The left side of the attached picture is similar to what the Palm Springs golf course used to look like. The hundreds of acres of barren landscape on the right and in the distance is the "ecological life raft" the NYT refers to. This is neither needed or welcome in the middle of a small town surrounded by thousands of acres of desert.