I saw some photos of the tree clearing of 7 Mile Beach, and the place looks spectacular. I remember reading in Tom Doak's The Making of Pacific Dunes, how there was a lovely small feature in front of today's 11th green, and so they redirected traffic around so that they didn't mess it up.
Curious on a few things: is it impossible to save micro contours / features when you're clearing an entire forest? And if not, how does one go about protecting cool features? Rope it off / cones, etc?