Run the twice-weekly summer watering route for Red Bluff's young street trees (2026-08-03)

A young tree in Red Bluff faces 100°F-plus heat for weeks with no rain from May to October, and an unwatered first-year street tree here simply dies. The watering route through the hot months is the entire difference between a canopy program and a stake graveyard. Standard: ISA young-tree establishment watering practice; SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities. Proof: Photo-logged route with tree count Method (ISA young-tree establishment watering practice; SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities.): 1. Take the young-tree route list and photograph any trees showing scorch or wilt. 2. Deep-water each tree 15 gallons slowly into its basin. 3. Rebuild flattened basins and top up mulch where thin. 4. Flag dead or failing trees for replacement. 5. Photograph the route's watered trees and log the count with date. Done when: Photos of watered trees with GPS and date; Count and gallons per tree; Replacement flags noted

Where

Young street trees, central Red Bluff blocks off Main Street, Red Bluff, CA 96080

Pay

$140 proposed

This packet is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price and not money waiting in escrow. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash. You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

Photo-logged route with tree count

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

entry

Open until

2026-08-10

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it. Typically 30–60 minutes. Method of record: i-Tree canopy / street-tree inventory

Bring

• GPS phone
• DBH tape or measuring tape
• tree ID reference
• camera
• hi-vis vest

Steps

1. 1. Walk the corridor; record a GPS waypoint at each tree.
2. 2. Photograph each surveyed tree.
3. 3. Record species (best estimate), condition class (good/fair/poor/dead), and DBH (diameter at breast height).
4. 4. Count vacant planting sites.
5. 5. Enter the per-tree records, vacant-site count, GPS, photos into the proof record; sign.

If it does not match the plan

• Dead or hazardous tree observed -> flag for the responsible agency (no removal by surveyor).
• High vacant-site count -> recommend a planting plan for the corridor.

What counts as done

• Photos of watered trees with GPS and date
• Count and gallons per tree
• Replacement flags noted

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Urban Canopy. Urban canopy is the layer of leaves over a city, and it is infrastructure as surely as the pipes below the street: shade that cools a block in a heat wave, roots that drink a storm. The i-Tree protocol turns it into something you can count, tree by tree, so a city knows what it has and what it is losing. Mastery looks like a person who can read a whole street's trees at a walk. This packet is a piece of that census: a few trees observed carefully and recorded where the record counts.