Greetings, outdoorspeople!
- Weekend forecast: Saturday; high 92, hot, mostly sunny/ Sunday; high 93, hot, spotty afternoon showers
- Recommended adventure: Each summer, the Chattanooga Track Club offers a 16-week training program designed to prepare beginner and experienced runners for marathons and half marathons. The program kicks off this Saturday, July 24, in preparation for the Chickamauga Battlefield marathon and half marathon. Learn more here.
- Most interesting thing we recently learned: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has quietly begun referring to “Asian carp” as “invasive carp.” Now, in the wake of anti-Asian hate crimes that surged during the coronavirus pandemic, some other government agencies are taking similar steps. (Learn more about local efforts to control the invasive species in the first story below.)
– Sunny Montgomery, smontgomery@timesfreepress.com