Plant a native post oak or blackjack oak shade tree pit near Mills County Courthouse.

The public grounds near Mills County Courthouse in Goldthwaite, TX lack shade cover, and a native post oak or blackjack oak, both proven in this Cross Timbers and Lampasas Cut Plain country, establishes real long-term shade without the water demands of a non-native species.

Where

Mills County Courthouse Square, 1011 4th St, Goldthwaite, TX 76844 (public county courthouse, confirmed address and coordinates) · Open the map

Pay

$90 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

photo of the planted tree pit with mulch ring + watering confirmation

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

Level

entry

Open until

2026-09-01

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

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 planting pit location clear of utilities.
2. 2. Dig a pit twice the width of the root ball and no deeper than the root flare.
3. 3. Plant the native post oak or blackjack oak, backfill with native soil, and mulch the pit ring, keeping mulch off the trunk.
4. 4. Water in thoroughly and photograph the finished planting.

What counts as done

• Photo of the tree planted at the correct depth, root flare visible
• Photo of the mulch ring kept clear of the trunk
• Confirmation that the pit was watered in thoroughly

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.