Rock Creek Weed wrangle
Save the Date for the 2024 Weed Wrangle: September 28
The 2023 Weed Wrangle was a resounding success! The Rock Creek Weed Wrangle is an area-wide volunteer-powered effort to help rescue our public parks and green spaces from non-native invasive species. This collective effort took place September 9 through October 7 and, despite the rainy weekends we knocked it out of the park. Thank you to all our volunteers!
33 volunteer events
450 volunteers
11,750 square feet of invasives removed
39 trees freed
Get Involved with Weed Wrangle
Volunteers help restore Rock Creek’s fragile forests! Details on events and registration are coming soon.
If you are a Weed Warrior interested in hosting an event during this timeframe, contact Katy Swiere at kswiere@rockcreekconservancy.org.
Are you a PRISM member or other natural resource manager looking to host a volunteer invasive removal event in your park/garden/natural area? Please email volunteer@rockcreekconservancy.org with “PRISM Weed Wrangle Interest’ in the subject line.
Can't make it but want to keep the weed wrangling going? Please take the Invasives Pledge to remove invasive species from your own private lands, protecting our parks from the outside in.
Interested in sponsorship opportunities? Please contact volunteer@rockcreekconservancy.org.
The 2022 weed wrangle was a resounding success!
The Rock Creek community collectively made Rock Creek’s forests more resilient.