Document a feral hog wallow and its runoff path, a public dry-ground vantage of a feral hog wallow near a park trail or bottomland flat.

A muddy wallow depression, a spot hogs have wetted down and repeatedly lain in, sits within view of a park trail or bottomland flat near a public dry-ground vantage of a feral hog wallow near a park trail or bottomland flat at Fort Parker State Park, site 3 at Fort Parker State Park, and no photo record exists of its condition or of where its runoff carries sediment toward the lake or a wetland margin.

Where

Fort Parker State Park (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department), public grounds and trails near Park Road 28, Mexia, TX 76667 (Limestone County) · Open the map

Pay

$85 proposed

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Proof

document only dry ground stand off photo log plus wallow and runoff path description plus GPS of the general vantage only plus ranked follow on note

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Level

entry

Open until

2026-11-06

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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: EPA dry-weather / AMD field screening

Bring

• GPS phone
• pH meter or strips
• conductivity meter
• ammonia + iron test kit as specified
• surfactant screen if specified
• gloves
• camera

Steps

1. 1. Navigate to the outfall/reach; record GPS; photograph it, capturing any visible flow or staining.
2. 2. Note whether flow is present in dry weather (yes/no).
3. 3. Measure and record pH, conductivity, and each specified analyte per kit instructions.
4. 4. Log any color, odor, floc, or aquatic-life observation.
5. 5. Enter all readings with units, GPS, time, and photos into the proof record; sign.

If it does not match the plan

• Dry-weather flow present with elevated conductivity/ammonia/surfactants -> flag suspected illicit discharge for the responsible agency.
• pH < 6 with visible iron floc -> tag suspected acid mine drainage; recommend metals lab panel.

What counts as done

• Photo of the wallow depression taken from dry ground at a stand-off
• Photo and description of the visible runoff or sediment path toward water
• 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 rec
• Ranked follow on note naming the site for a sediment-control crew
• GPS waypoint of the general public vantage only, never the wallow's precise location

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Watershed Health. A watershed is everything the land pours into a stream, and the stream keeps the record. The EPA's bioassessment method reads that record through the small creatures living in the gravel: mayflies and caddisflies mean clean water, only worms and midges mean trouble. Mastery looks like a person who can wade one riffle with a net and tell you how the whole valley is doing. That skill is built sample by sample. This packet is one of them: one site, one careful count, one entry in the long record of a stream.