Five years after plans were scrapped to use the College Park, Md. course for an academic village and mixed-use commercial development, officials of the space-crunched school are now thinking of repurposing four holes for a track-and-field complex, 600-space parking lot and five football-length intramural fields. Opponents and golf supporters question the need to build all…

The program formed through a partnership between Audubon International and the Environmental Defense Fund, which encourages clubs and golf courses to create and maintain habitat for Monarch butterflies and other pollinators in out-of-play areas, has already enrolled more than 250 properties since it was launched in January. The sponsors have now set a new goal…

In May, just under an acre of land between the first and 18thholes of the golf course in College Park, Md. was cleared to plant milkweed seeds, as part of the program to bolster the declining population of monarch butterflies.