Spring Cedar Barren Weed Wrangle to be held Saturday

 

Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness planning is sponsoring a Weed Wrangle at the Oak Ridge Cedar Barren on Saturday, March 7. The event is part of an invasive plant removal project coordinated by The Garden Club of Nashville and Invasive Plant Control. One of only a few cedar barrens in East Tennessee, the area is subject to invasion by Chinese lespedeza, Japanese privet, autumn olive, mimosa, Nepal grass, multiflora rose, and woody plants that threaten the system’s prairie plants, a press release said.

Volunteers should meet at the Jefferson Middle School parking lot next to the baseball field at 9 a.m. Saturday, with sturdy shoes or boots, loppers, hand saws, weather-appropriate clothing, snacks, and water, the press release said. Other tools and work gloves will be available at the event.

Volunteers will be treated to pizza following the event at around noon. The day’s activities should conclude by 1 p.m.

For additional information, contact Tim Bigelow, TCWP’s Cedar Barrens steward, at (865) 607-6781 or at bigelowt2@mindspring.com.

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