Weed Wrangle® Chattanooga!
Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
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: Greenway Farm, 4690 Gann Store Road, Hixson, TN 37343.
When: March 2, 2024, 9AM-12PM
Contact - Sofia Rudakevych
423-596-4743
How to Register: Register Here!
Targeting: Privet, Honeysuckle, English Ivy.
Details: We will meet at the parking near the dog park. Tools and gloves will be provided. Please wear closed-toe shoes and long pants. Work will be on uneven terrain. We will also be using iNaturalist to identify plants, it’s recommended that you download the app on your phone beforehand.
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Where: Stringer’s Ridge Connector Trail, 798 Ben Miller Parkway, Red Bank, TN 37415
When: March 2, 2024, 10AM-1PM
Contact: Hollie Berry, hberry@redbanktn.gov
423-605-5916
How to Register: RSVP on Facebook here.
Targeting: Chinese Privet, Japanese Honeysuckle.
Details: Park at the Red Bank Dog Park near the south entrance of White Oak Park.
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Where: 1835 Old Wauhatchie Pike, Lookout Mountain, TN 37350
When: March 2nd 2024, 9AM - 12 PM.
Contact: Holly Odell holly@lookoutmountainconservancy.org
(423) 544-4809
Registration: Register Here!
Targeting: Privet and Bush Honeysuckle.
Details: Please park in gravel parking lot. This event is weather-dependent and will be postponed in case of rain. Restrooms are available on site.Water will be provided so bring your refillable bottles.
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Where: 1604 Taft Highway, Signal Mountain, TN 37377
When: March 2 2024, 9AM-12PM
Contact: Melissa Nimon, melissa@mccoywalden.org
423-598-1658
How to Register: No registration necessary!
Targeting: English Ivy, Bittersweet, Burning Bush, Privet.
Details: Meet in the parking lot. Please bring gloves, a water bottle, and hand pruners and/or loppers.
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Where: Palisades Park, Signal Mountain, TN 37377
When: March 2 2024, 1PM-4PM
Contact: Corinne Giagnorio, corinne@epbfi.com
423-580-5346
How to Register: Please email Corinne Giagnorio at corinne@epbfi.com to register
Targeting: English Ivy, Privet, Honeysuckle, Kudzu.
Details: Palisades Park is located at the intersection of Palisades Drive and the entrance to the Carriage Hill subdivision.
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Where: 400 Garden Road, Chattanooga, TN 37419
When: March 2 2024, 9AM- 12PM
Contacts: Paige Powell, paige@reflectionriding.org
931-239-9919
How to Register: Volunteers will register via email to Paige at paige@reflectionriding.org
Targeting: Privet
Details: Please meet at the Welcome Center.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Where: Lake Junior Parking Area, Chickamauga Dam Reservation.
When: March 2, 2024, 9AM-1PM.
Contact: Mark Odom mlodom@tva.gov
423-876-6864
How to Register: Email mlodom@tva.gov or call 423-876-6864
Targeting: Chinese Privet
Details: Access road to Lake Junior Parking Area is on south side of the dam from Amnicola Highway.
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.