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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.