Plant a real shade tree.

Parking island 1 at Comanche Public Library in Comanche is a curbed box of hard, compacted subsoil with no working tree in it; whatever was planted here before had nowhere for its roots to go and no way for rain to reach them, so the island sits bare while the lot around it bakes in full Texas sun with zero canopy over the parked cars.

Where

Comanche Public Library, 508 E Central Ave, Comanche, TX 76442 (public City of Comanche library, best-estimate location near the confirmed address), parking island 1 · Open the map

Pay

$190 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

GPS waypoint on the island + before/after photos showing the island curb, decompaction, and root flare at grade + mulch/watering-basin confirmation + species record

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-09-10

Posted by

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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.

Steps

1. 1. Confirm the island location with the site owner and honor an 811 utility locate before any digging; photograph the bare, compacted island before work starts.
2. 2. Hand-decompact the island soil to at least 24 inches with a broadfork or air spade, working the full planting area rather than a single narrow hole, since a small hole in hardpan just becomes a bathtub that drowns or starves the root ball.
3. 3. Dig a wide, shallow planting hole matched to the root ball, keeping the root flare level with or slightly above the surrounding grade, and plant a native bur oak or chinquapin oak chosen for this exact compacted, hot, alkaline-soil island setting.
4. 4. Backfill with the decompacted native soil, form a watering basin, mulch 2 to 3 inches deep held off the trunk, water in thoroughly, and photograph the finished planting with the island curb visible in frame.

What counts as done

• Written or recorded permission from the site owner (city or county facilities)
• GPS waypoint recorded on the island footprint on utility-cleared ground
• Before and after photos showing the island curb and the root flare visible at grade
• Confirmation that the island soil was decompacted to at least 24 inches before planting, not just a narrow planting hole
• Mulch applied 2 to 3 inches deep and held off the trunk, with a watering basin formed and watered in
• Species recorded, a native bur oak or chinquapin oak chosen for compacted, alkaline, heat-exposed island conditions

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Urban Canopy. Urban canopy is the layer of leaves over a city, and it is infrastructure as surely as the pipes below the street: shade that cools a block in a heat wave, roots that drink a storm. The i-Tree protocol turns it into something you can count, tree by tree, so a city knows what it has and what it is losing. Mastery looks like a person who can read a whole street's trees at a walk. This packet is a piece of that census: a few trees observed carefully and recorded where the record counts.