The Scott Family views their courses not only as wonderful places for people to enjoy the game of golf, but also as terrific habitats for all types of wildlife. Gull Lake View Golf Resort is proud of the fact that each one of our five golf courses has been a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary since 1995.

The Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses, and the Silver Signature Program for our Cranes Pond Community, provide guidelines that help us work to protect precious natural resources and habitats for the benefit of plants, wildlife, people, and the game of golf. Achieving and maintaining certification in these programs demonstrates a deep commitment to high standards of environmental management and protection.

These programs are not just about ongoing maintenance. In working closely with Audubon International we are developing programs to cut down on water use, reduce our waste, manage our energy consumption, protect our water quality, and manage our resource use from a holistic standpoint. Long tem, this is as important to our environmental quality as our management programs.

Programs, however are not much good without implementation. We have our twelve years of successful implementation on our golf courses and are working to transfer that knowledge and experience to our residential developments. The Woods at Stonehedge and Cranes Pond are both Open Space Developments with over 50% of the land in each permanently set aside as green space. At Cranes Pond, the program goes even further, using clustering, low impact storm water management, and various habitat improvement projects to construct an environment that truly blends with nature. We hope that these programs can serve as a template to promote this type of development in our community in the future.

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