Best Management Practices (BMPs) are the tools that successful superintendents use every day to maintain quality playing surfaces. The adoption of BMP plans at the facility level helps GCSAA chapters and GCSAA advocate for golf course superintendents with national, state and local lawmakers. It demonstrates our commitment to professional land management by using science-based practices, including the responsible use of inputs, to the media and our communities.
In this 90-minute workshop, Mark Johnson, and Emily Fuger, GCSAA, explain why BMPs are important at your facility and show how easy it is to use GCSAA’s online tool to develop your own BMP plan. They will then show how you can adapt the Oregon or Washington guide to your own course.
Original presentation date: April 29, 2021 Education points: 0.20
About the Instructors
Mark Johnson is the associate director of environmental programs here at GCSAA. He earned his bachelor’s degree in systematics and ecology from the University of Kansas and has more than 35 years in the natural resource/outdoor recreation professions. Johnson has worked for the Association for over 15 years, providing leadership, direction and project management for the various environmental programs, tools and services at GCSAA.
Emily Fuger is the manager of environmental programs for GCSAA. She earned her bachelors in soil science from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point and her master’s in environmental conservation from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Before she joined the GCSAA team she managed soil science activities for students as one aspect of her job.
