Urine damage

Female canines (coyotes and dogs primarily) can cause serious damage to golf course greens and other landscape areas with turfgrasses. The concentrated urine deposited in localized patches frequently looks like disease.

This photo of a sample from a poa green illustrates the type of damage that can result from animal urine - probably coyotes in this case. The test strips indicate that the nitrate nitrogen load in the center of the patch reached 78 ppm (equivalent to about 4 lbs…