every country club should be converted to a quasi arboretum, open to the public, and have it's course converted into a hiking trail for ecological interpretive walks to showcase the conversion processes, the environmental management decisions/ethical drivers & their consequences, and chill spots with places for those little workout stations, slack lining, and whatever else.

in my ecology coursework we toured lots of places and the discussion of land management regimes and their changes over time was very instructive in helping to "see" the ecological processes at work and how they interact with human efforts.

then I would consider "joining" one and contributing yearly $ to get my name added to a "brass level contributor" type of list.

if I live to see the destruction of many country clubs, I will consider it a human success story.