White Lake public wildlife-viewing point, Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge, Bailey County, TX 79347 (public U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuge)
Document wintering sandhill crane roost habitat, White Lake viewing point.
A worker at the designated public overlook at the site photographs the roost shoreline through a zoom lens and notes any worn, damaged, faded or missing bench or panel. Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $95 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- Proofdocument only stand off photo log plus habitat and amenity condition note plus GPS plus ranked follow on note
- Open until2026-11-04
- Levelentry
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Document wintering sandhill crane roost habitat, White Lake viewing point. Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge's White Lake viewing point hosts one of the largest wintering sandhill crane concentrations in North America, and the refuge's public overlook amenities need a current condition record to keep the stand-off viewing experience safe and informative.
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Safety, read before you claim
No special training is needed; dress in layers for extreme winter cold and wind, and watch for cold exposure. Stay on the overlook, trail or road, and never approach a sandhill crane roost or flock.
The full safety list for this job:
- Never approach a sandhill crane roost or feeding flock at any skill level; never use calls, playback, or a drone; never use flash photography or move quickly toward roosting or feeding birds.
- All observation happens from the refuge's designated public overlook, the auto-tour route, or a public road only.
- Saline playa lake beds can look like a dry, walkable salt crust but conceal deep, soft mud underneath; never walk onto a playa lake bed at any skill level.
- All work in this family stays on the shoreline upland, the maintained overlook platform or trail, the refuge auto-tour route, or a public road.
- No water or sediment sample is ever collected from a saline playa lake at any skill level; this work is visual observation and shoreline-upland work only.
- Rattlesnakes are present in playa-margin grass, brush, and rock or debris piles; watch foot and hand placement at all times, never reach into grass, brush, or debris by hand.
- Work in early morning or late afternoon during Llano Estacado / South Plains summer heat, carry more water than you think you need, and take breaks in shade or a vehicle since this treeless High Plains landscape offers little natural shade.
- Sandhill crane wintering season on the Llano Estacado brings extreme cold and high wind with no windbreak on this open, treeless plains landscape; dress in layers, protect exposed skin, watch for signs of cold exposure, and limit time outdoors accordingly.
- Confirm current public access rules, visiting hours, and any seasonal closures with Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge staff (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) before visiting; refuge hunting programs and seasonal or weather-related closures can change which areas and roads are open to the public.
- This survey recurs seasonally, primarily during the winter crane-viewing season.
How this work is done
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Steps
- 1. Confirm current public access rules, visiting hours, and any seasonal closures with Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge staff (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) before visiting; refuge hunting programs and seasonal or weather-related closures can change which areas and roads are open to the public.
- 2. From the designated public overlook only, using binoculars or zoom photography, observe and note the apparent water depth and the extent of open shoreline visible at the roost, the habitat structure sandhill cranes need to roost safely.
- 3. Note the overlook platform, kiosk, bench, or interpretive panel condition (worn, damaged, faded, or missing) while at the vantage. Never approach a sandhill crane roost or feeding flock at any skill level; never use calls, playback, or a drone; never use flash photography or move quickly toward roosting or feeding birds. All observation happens from the refuge's designated public overlook, the auto-tour route, or a public road only.
- 4. Record a ranked follow on note naming the overlook for the refuge's amenity-repair program. Sandhill crane wintering season on the Llano Estacado brings extreme cold and high wind with no windbreak on this open, treeless plains landscape; dress in layers, protect exposed skin, watch for signs of cold exposure, and limit time outdoors accordingly.
What counts as done
- Photo of the roost habitat (water depth appearance, open shoreline) taken from the designated public overlook, binoculars or zoom lens only
- Note of the overlook platform, kiosk, bench, or interpretive panel condition
- Confirmation the entire survey or work stayed on the refuge's designated public overlook, the auto-tour route, or a public road; that no playa lake bed was walked onto; that no crane roost or feeding flock was approached, called to, played back to, droned, or flash-photographed; and that no water or sediment sample was collected from a saline playa lake.
- Ranked follow on note naming the overlook for the refuge's amenity-repair program
- GPS waypoint of the surveyed overlook
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