Jeff Carlson, a 21-year certified member of The Golf Course Superintendent’s Association of America and 2008 recipient of The President’s Award for Environmental Stewardship, has consulted and managed golf courses on several environmentally sensitive coastal locations in the Northeast. In 2000 Carlson was selected to be the construction manager and founding Superintendent of The Vineyard Golf Club, a private 18-hole course located on the Island of Martha’s Vineyard, that has been nationally recognized as one of the only organically conceived, constructed and maintained golf courses in the United States.

In 1998 Carlson formed a consulting company, Wild Side Consulting Inc., specializing in permitting, land planning and environmental management for golf courses and private estates. In 2001 Wildside teamed with the Center for Resource Management to develop an environmental plan for all the golf courses owned and operated by United States Department of Defense. Wildside currently is developing and implementing organic management plans for several estates on the Island of Martha’s Vineyard. One of the estates, The Blue Heron Farm in Chilmark Massachusetts, recently hosted President Obama and his family during their 2009 vacation on Martha’s Vineyard.