Weed Wrangle® Chattanooga!

Saturday, March 1st, 2025

Weed Wrangle® is a one-day, area-wide, volunteer effort to help rescue our public parks and green spaces from non-native invasive species through hands-on removal of especially harmful trees, vines, and flowering plants.

Participating locations list & map

Click the location names below or click the map pins for more information on each location.

  • Weed Wrangle® is a grassroots project whose efforts are improved one weed, one volunteer at a time. This project idea emerged in 2015 from discussions between members of The Garden Club of Nashville, a member of The Garden Club of America and the Friends of Warner Parks about the number of invasive weed pulls that were being hosted sporadically around the city of Nashville. The Garden Club of Nashville coordinated efforts of local parks and green spaces to discuss the idea of having a one-day education and eradication event, city-wide, with a media blitz. Years later, this grassroots project is now in multiple states and growing invasively, like a weed!​

    MISSION

    To establish partnerships that connect volunteers and public lands for the purpose of education and eradication of non-native invasive plant species followed with the planned restoration of native plant communities.

    VISION

    To promote Weed Wrangle® as a nationwide structure for organizing all eradication events on public lands including national, state and city parks with the goals of increasing participation and public awareness about the threats from non-native invasive species, eradicating those plant populations and replacing them with natives.

  • Where: 400 Garden Road, Chattanooga, TN 37419

    When: March 1 2025, 9AM- 12PM

    Contact: Ethan Brincefield, ethan@reflectionriding.org

    How to Register: Volunteers will register on this website. Participants must also read and sign our general liability waiver.

    Targeting: Privet, Bush Honeysuckle, Horned Holly, Wintercreeper

    Details: Park at the Welcome Center, and then meet the crew by the Kiddie Trail for invasive removal.

  • Where: 1604 Taft Highway, Signal Mountain, 37377

    When: March 1 2025, 9AM- 12PM

    Contact: info@mccoywalden.org, 423-598-1658

    How to Register: This location does not require registration.

    Targeting: TBA

    Details: Meet at the Welcome Center in the parking lot. Bring gloves, a water bottle, and hand pruners or loppers. Wear sturdy cloths and closed-toed shoes.

  • Where: Gear Closet (305 Signal Mountain Road, Chattanooga, 37405)

    When: March 1 2025, 9AM- 12PM

    Contact: Don McKenzie

    How to Register: Volunteers will register on this website.

    Targeting: TBA

    Details: Bring loppers and saws.

  • Where: 8520 Dayton Pike, Soddy Daisy, TN, 37379

    When: March 1 2025, 10AM- 12PM

    Contact: Isabelle Barber, Isabelle.Barber@tn.gov

    How to Register: Volunteers will register on this website.

    Targeting: English Ivy

    Details: You’ll join Rangers Isabelle and Lukas on the Springfield Trail for weed wrangling. Long sleeves and gloves are encouraged, as the area is known to host poison ivy.

  • Where: Old Hwy 411, Benton, TN, 37307

    When: March 1 2025, 9AM- 11AM

    Contact: Ranger Travis, travis.england@tn.gov

    How to Register: Volunteers will register on this website.

    Targeting: Invasives

    Details: You’ll join wrangle weeds at the Nancy Ward Grave Site.

  • Where: 5801 Champion Road, Chattanooga, TN, 37416

    When: March 1 2025, 1PM-3PM

    Contact: Daniel Basham, daniel.basham@tn.gov

    How to Register: Volunteers will register on this website.

    Targeting: Privet

    Details: You’ll meet at Recreation Area 2 Shelter.

  • Where: 8411 Harrison Bay Rd, Harrison, TN, 37341

    When: March 1 2025, 9AM-11AM

    Contact: TBA

    How to Register: Volunteers will register on this website.

    Targeting: Various Invasives

    Details: Wear closed-toed shoes and clothes you don’t mind getting muddy.

Supervised by an expert in invasive weed management, Weed Wrangle® volunteers learn, practice and begin a habit of maintaining an area free of non-native invasive plants and encourage replanting with natives in removal areas. By engaging our neighbors and challenging them to take action in their own spaces, we hope to create a movement that will have the greatest impact on the invasive plant population.