A prescribed burn will take place behind the dog parks at Heritage Park in order to kill off the emerald ash borer bugs and to also give the gardens a fresh start.

The City of Chattanooga Natural Resources team is partnering with the Southeastern Grassland Institute to continue maintenance work on a meadow in East Brainerd that was seeded in 2021.

Prescribed burn scheduled for Heritage Park

Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors has scheduled a prescribed burn at Heritage Park on Friday, December 12.

Spokesperson for the City of Chattanooga Parks & Outdoors, Brian Smith, says rather than issuing a prescribed burn for fire prevention, this meadow burn will help reduce the number of an invasive beetle species found in ash trees.

"If we were to let those ash trees grow, they're very

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