Document the crayfish burrow chimneys.

The roadside ditch margin along SH 6 at the edge of Navasota, Grimes County, TX floods and drains every wet season, but nobody has recorded how long the ground actually stays saturated there. Burrowing crayfish push up mud chimneys only where the water table stays high enough long enough to support them, so a simple photo count of chimney density, height, and freshness turns "this looks wet sometimes" into ground level evidence of how long the site really holds water.

Where

a public roadside ditch along SH 6 on the edge of Navasota, Grimes County, TX 77868 · Open the map

Pay

$80 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

stand off photo log of the chimney field plus close up chimney condition photos plus hydroperiod rating note plus general site GPS

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

Level

entry

Open until

2026-11-09

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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: EPA National Wetland Condition Assessment (rapid method)

Bring

• GPS phone
• quadrat frame
• invasive-species ID reference
• boots
• insect protection
• camera

Steps

1. 1. Navigate to the wetland edge; record GPS; stay on stable ground.
2. 2. Photograph 3 quadrat stations.
3. 3. At each station, estimate percent cover native vs invasive; identify the dominant invasive.
4. 4. Note hydrology / water level and any disturbance.
5. 5. Enter cover percentages, invasive ID, hydrology, GPS, photos into the proof record; sign.

If it does not match the plan

• Standing water + wildlife (snakes/alligators) -> maintain distance; never sample alone.
• High invasive cover -> flag for a management/removal plan.

What counts as done

• Wide photo of the general chimney field from a fixed vantage
• Close up photos of three to five representative chimneys with a rough height/condition note each
• Short hydroperiod rating (short, moderate, or long) with the reasoning written out
• Confirmation that this work never dug into, probed, plugged, flooded, or otherwise disturbed a crayfish burrow at any skill level; that no crayfish, live or dead, was handled, captured, collected, or removed; that no individual burrow or small burrow cluster was pinned with its own precise coordinate, only the general public roadside site; that this work stayed on firm ground and never stepped onto standing water or a wet mudflat; that hi-vis was worn and the work stayed on the shoulder, clear of the travel lane; and that the ditch was checked for flowing water before starting, in compliance w
• GPS waypoint of the general public roadside site only, never an individual burrow

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Wetland Condition. Wetlands are the landscape's kidneys and nurseries at once: they filter the water, absorb the flood, and raise the young of half the creatures around them. The EPA's rapid assessment gives a trained visitor a way to grade one honestly: the plants present, the water's path, the soil, the wear at the edges. Mastery looks like walking a marsh and knowing, defensibly, how it is doing and what threatens it. This packet is one such visit, one wetland's condition recorded to the method. What is watched can be defended; unwatched wetlands quietly disappear.