Golfdom, December 2011
MARKS A MILESTONE 24 Golfdom December 2011 PHOTOS AT LEFT COURTESY RON DODSON MIKE KLEMME RIGHT ISTOCK INTERNATIONAL INC Audubon International The organization dedicated to preserving wildlife and nature on golf courses celebrates 20 years BY KEN MOUM T oday its hard to imagine golf without an organization whose mission is to help courses navigate their way to environmental consciousness Several organizations and initiatives aim to do that now but 25 years ago that wasnt the case Then Ron Dodson had something happen that too many people in the business of golf will find familiar he got laid off Dodson founder and president of Audubon International had been a regional vice president of the National Audubon Society In the mid 1980s that organization suffered some budget deficits and closed a number of its offices including his He needed to find something to do and had plenty of history in the environmental movement of the era I am a wildlife biologist by training I was a school teacher and did a number of other things but I was always concerned about the environment Dodson said He added that he was talking to Kentucky residents about the environment back as early as the 1970s Ron Dodson pulls old siding off the Audubon International headquarters around 1988 Below Dodson and John Santacrose then vice president of AI in front of the building
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