National park ranger Dan Kiger says oil poses a special risk to mangroves and sea grass, for example.
VOA: standard.2010.07.05
Environmental experts say the oil is likely to kill the grass in this marsh.
VOA: standard.2010.06.01
To keep the sand from blowing away, most courses rake three or four gallons of vegetable oil into each green once or twice a year. (Not too long ago, they used motor oil.) Sand greens are about one-third the speed of grass, but the oil quickens them up a bit, too.
Nicholas Rushlow, a 14-year-old eighth-grader from Lancaster, Ohio, was eliminated when he misspelled "vetiver, " an aeromatic grass whose especially fragrant root yields an oil used in perfumery and mats in India.