a public roadside ditch along SH 90 on the edge of Madisonville, Madison County, TX 77864
Pull the mow delay flags once the burrow zone has dried, near Madisonville, site 2.
A worker pulls the flag stakes from the dried shoulder at a public roadside ditch along SH 90 on the edge of Madisonville, rolls up the flagging tape by hand, and photographs the cleared ground with a camera. Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $80 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- Proofdried field photo plus removal photo plus stake and tape count plus general site GPS
- Open until2026-11-09
- Levelentry
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Pull the mow delay flags once the burrow zone has dried, near Madisonville, site 2. Flags left up year round stop meaning anything and become roadside litter; once the chimneys at this site have visibly dried and collapsed, the flags marking the wet zone near Madisonville, Madison County, TX need to come out so mowing can resume and next season's flag line reads as current, not leftover.
Offer to pay $80. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.
Safety, read before you claim
Never dig into or disturb a crayfish burrow, and never handle or collect a crayfish, since disturbing one can kill the animal inside. Stay off the travel lane and out of standing water, and leave for the shoulder if the ditch starts rising.
The full safety list for this job:
- This work never digs into, probes, pokes a stick or rod down, plugs, floods, pours anything into, or otherwise disturbs an active or inactive crayfish burrow at any skill level.
- No crayfish, live or dead, is ever handled, captured, collected, or removed from a burrow or the surrounding mud at any skill level.
- This work never claims a species identification for any crayfish or burrow, and records only chimney presence, count, height, and surface condition.
- No individual burrow or small burrow cluster is ever pinned with its own precise coordinate; every location recorded is the general public roadside site only, never a mapped burrow.
- The ground at an active chimney field is often soft, waterlogged mud that will not support a person's full weight; stay on firm ground at the margin and never step onto standing water or a wet mudflat, and never wade into ponded water.
- This site sits in the SH 90 road right of way at the edge of Madisonville; wear hi-vis, stay on the shoulder or ditch bank well clear of the travel lane, and never step into the travel lane for any reason.
- After heavy rain this roadside ditch can run with fast moving water; never work while water is visibly flowing in the ditch bottom.
- Texas heat on an open roadside ditch is severe with little to no shade; work in the cooler morning or evening hours when possible, carry more water than you think you need, wear sun protection and light colored breathable clothing, and take frequent shade breaks.
- Venomous snakes, fire ants, and ticks favor this kind of damp roadside margin; watch foot and hand placement at all times, never reach blindly into grass or under debris, and give any snake a wide path.
- No other organism or plant is handled or collected at this site, no wild seed is ever collected, and no listed species is approached or disturbed.
- Tell someone your route and return time before heading out to a rural roadside site.
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 firm ground, check that the chimneys inside the flagged zone are dry, crumbling, or no longer visible before removing anything.
- 2. Photograph the dried chimney field as found, confirming the ground now supports normal foot traffic.
- 3. Pull each stake and roll up the flagging tape by hand, leaving no hardware or tape debris on site.
- 4. Photograph the cleared shoulder and log the removal date for next season's reinstall.
What counts as done
- Photo confirming the chimneys are dry and the ground supports normal foot traffic
- After photo of the cleared shoulder with all stakes and tape removed
- Stake and tape count removed, matched against the install record
- 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 with the vein's full safety stack.
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.
What is promised, and what is not
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Other acts: vote, pledge, fund
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