The days to using DDT are long dead.
The poison killed more than plants and pests when applied to golf courses about 40 years ago.
Chemicals killed back then. Pesticides, fungicides and herbicides were detrimental, and golf courses developed a reputation as being bad for the environment.
The opposite is the case in 2012.
Wild turkeys have free range at The Honors Course. Deer run free and may force a golfer to rethink a shot at Bear Trace at Harrison Bay. It’s on that course, in a tall pine tree beside the green on the 10th hole, that a pair of bald eagles have made their home — chicks included — for the last two years.