Fort Parker State Park (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department), public grounds and trails near Park Road 28, Mexia, TX 76667 (Limestone County)
Document feral hog rooting damage.
A worker photographs a rooted patch of ground from a public trail stand-off at Fort Parker State Park (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department), with a tape measure in frame, showing turned-over soil and torn plants. Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $85 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- Proofdocument only stand off photo log plus rooting extent measurement plus depth and vegetation notes plus GPS plus ranked follow on note
- Open until2026-11-06
- Levelentry
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Photograph the feral hog rooting damage from the public trail stand-off at Fort Parker State Park, site 2. A stretch of ground along Fort Parker State Park's wetland margin or bottomland flat near the public trail stand-off overlooking a rooted patch of wetland margin or bottomland ground at Fort Parker State Park, site 2 shows fresh feral hog rooting, soil turned over and ground layer vegetation torn up by snouts searching for roots and grubs, and no photo record exists yet to show how far the disturbance has spread or how it is changing season to season.
Offer to pay $85. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.
Safety, read before you claim
Never approach, touch, or photograph any hog at close range; if a hog is seen or heard nearby, stop immediately and leave the area, since a sow with piglets will charge. Wallow water and mud are contaminated; document only from dry ground.
The full safety list for this job:
- This work never traps, snares, baits, shoots, hunts, or uses dogs against any hog, never builds or maintains any capture-designed fence, performs no aerial work, and applies no toxicant at any skill level; feral hog control involves firearms and animal killing and is not this library's to teach.
- No carcass is ever touched; feral hogs carry brucellosis and pseudorabies, both transmissible to people and to dogs, so no physical or close-range contact is made with an animal or its remains.
- No def wades into a wallow, touches its water or mud by hand, or collects a water sample at any skill level.
- No precise coordinate of a wallow or a rooting concentration is ever recorded or published; this work states only the general park or trail vantage it was observed or worked from.
- Ground-repair work is hand tools, boots on firm ground, and gloves; wash hands before eating or drinking and again after any contact with disturbed soil.
- No organism is handled or collected, no wild seed is collected, no plant is removed from the site, and no listed species is approached; any reseeding uses only a small quantity of store bought native or turf grass seed on the single repaired patch, never a broader prairie planting.
- Limestone County is largely private ranchland outside Fort Parker State Park; this work is confined to the park's public grounds and trails, the public road right of way, public building grounds, or a resident's own home with consent, and never approaches private property without an owner's direct permission.
- Rattlesnakes, fire ants, ticks, and chiggers are present; watch foot and hand placement and give any snake a wide path, and thorny vegetation means gloves and eye protection are needed.
- Groesbeck and Mexia are small Limestone County towns with unreliable cell coverage in the park's outer trail sections; tell someone your planned route and return time before you start, carry more water than you think you need, and do not work alone in the park's backcountry.
- This work is never scheduled at dawn or dusk, when feral hogs are most active; it happens mid morning instead, in the open with good visibility, carrying more water than you think you need, wearing sun protection and light colored breathable clothing, and taking frequent shade breaks.
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. From a public trail, confirm no hog is present nearby before approaching to photograph; if a hog is seen or heard, leave the area immediately and do not photograph at close range.
- 2. Photograph the rooted patch with a tape measure or a known-length object in frame, and pace off or measure its approximate length and width.
- 3. Note the rooting depth (shallow surface scuffing versus deep overturned soil) and how much ground-layer vegetation is torn versus intact, distinguishing this from a grazed patch: rooting overturns the soil profile from below, grazing removes vegetation from above, and the photo should show that different signature.
- 4. Record a ranked follow on note naming the site for a ground-repair crew, and state the observation point relative to the park landmark, never a precise coordinate of the rooted concentration itself.
What counts as done
- Photo of the rooted patch with a measured scale reference
- Rooting extent measurement (approximate length and width) and depth/vegetation notes recorded
- Confirmation that this work never trapped, snared, baited, shot, hunted, or used dogs against any hog, built no capture-designed fence, performed no aerial work, and applied no toxicant; that no hog, live or dead, was touched, approached, followed, cornered, or photographed at close range and no carcass was touched; that if a hog was seen or heard nearby the work stopped and the person left the area; that this work was never scheduled at dawn or dusk; that no wallow water or mud was waded into, touched by hand, or sampled; that no precise coordinate of a wallow or rooting concentration was recorded or published; that no organism, wild seed, or plant was collected and no listed species was approached; and that the work stayed within Fort Parker State Park's public grounds, the public road right of way, public building grounds, or a consenting resident's own home and never crossed onto private ranch land.
- Ranked follow on note naming the site for a ground-repair crew
- GPS waypoint of the public trail vantage
Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.
The standard this serves
Soil Health. Soil health is the discovery, now written into USDA standards, that soil is not dirt but a living body: it breathes, digests, holds water, and can sicken or recover. The tests are wonderfully physical. Time how fast water soaks in. See whether a clod holds together in water or falls apart. Smell for the sweetness of organic matter. Mastery looks like a farmer who can read a handful of ground like a page. This packet is one plot examined by those methods and recorded, one honest page in the story of a piece of land.
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