Repair and reseed a rooted bare patch of public turf, a rooted patch of public turf or trail-edge ground.

The survey above found bare, rooted ground at risk of invasive colonization near a rooted patch of public turf or trail-edge ground at Fort Parker State Park, site 4 at Fort Parker State Park; hand re-firming the patch, covering it with straw mulch, and broadcasting a small quantity of store bought native or turf grass seed mix closes the bare-ground window before an invasive plant takes hold, without becoming a prairie restoration planting.

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

$160 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

before after photos plus patch dimension record plus seed and mulch material record plus GPS

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-09-06

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The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it. Typically 45–90 minutes. Method of record: USDA-NRCS soil-health in-situ assessment

Bring

• soil auger or trowel
• infiltration ring + measured water + timer
• penetrometer (if compaction in scope)
• clean bucket
• sample bags + labels
• gloves
• GPS phone
• camera

Steps

1. 1. Navigate to the plot; record GPS; sketch the sampling layout.
2. 2. Photograph each sampling station.
3. 3. Run the infiltration ring; record time to infiltrate 1 inch.
4. 4. Assess aggregate stability and note visible organic matter, roots, and biology.
5. 5. If compaction is in scope, record penetrometer resistance by depth.
6. 6. Collect 0-15 cm cores if a lab subsample is specified; bag, label, complete COC.
7. 7. Enter all measurements with units + depth, GPS, photos into the proof record; sign.

If it does not match the plan

• Infiltration > 30 min/inch or high penetrometer resistance -> flag compaction; recommend cover crop / reduced traffic.
• Very low organic matter / no visible biology -> flag degraded; recommend amendment plan.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the bare, rooted patch
• Patch dimensions (approximate length and width) 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 rec
• Seed mix product and mulch material recorded (store bought native or turf grass mix only, no wild collected seed)
• After photo of the re-firmed, mulched, reseeded patch

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.