Events

WONA is planning our first weed wrangle at the Mountain Gap Trail in South Huntsville. This trail is badly overgrown with invasive species, and we have received permission from the City of Huntsville to begin the process of clearing invasive plants from the trail. A 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. While there are many invasive species on the Mountain Gap Trail (bush honeysuckle, nandina, mimosa, kudzu, English Ivy, Liriope, et al.) the focus will be on removing woody invasive plants - principally bush honeysuckle. This activity will be moderately strenuous and will involve the application of herbicides on cut stumps. If you would like to attend, please email [email protected] with the subject “Weed Wrangle.” We will meet in the parking lot of Weatherly Heights Elementary school at 9 AM for a brief orientation before carpooling to the site at ~9:15 AM. If you live in the vicinity of the Mountain Gap Trail, you can walk to meet us at the terminus of Hemlock Dr. SE at 9:15 AM. The required training (safety, identification and control) will be provided to Weed Wrangle participants and a trained botanist will be present to supervise the work. NOTE: There are no restrooms available at the event.

Things to bring include: water, loppers and handsaws, bugspray, heavy duty gardening gloves, eye protection

Clothing: long sleeves and pants, sturdy shoes, hat and eye protection