Plant a native shade tree.

This library grounds has a bare, sun-exposed stretch with no shade relief; a native shade tree planted at a safe setback from any structure or path cools that ground for the people who use it.

Where

the public library serving Bay City, TX 77414 (Matagorda County; best-estimate location near the town center, exact address not confirmed; branch name and hours to be confirmed with library staff) · Open the map

Pay

$150 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 + before/after photos of root flare at grade + mulch/watering-basin confirm + species record

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

Level

entry

Open until

2026-09-13

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 with library staff how the grounds are currently maintained, then confirm the planting spot with staff, honor an 811 utility locate before any digging, and photograph the bare site before.
2. 2. Dig a wide, shallow planting hole matched to the root ball, keeping the root flare level with or slightly above surrounding grade.
3. 3. Plant a native, drought-tolerant shade tree suited to the Gulf Coast/Blackland Prairie region, backfill with native soil, and form a watering basin.
4. 4. Mulch 2 to 3 inches deep held off the trunk, water in thoroughly, and photograph the finished planting from the matching before vantage, recording species.

What counts as done

• Written or recorded confirmation from library staff
• GPS waypoint recorded on utility-cleared ground
• Before and after photos showing the root flare visible at grade
• Mulch applied 2 to 3 inches deep and held off the trunk, with a watering basin formed and watered in
• Species recorded, favoring a native shade tree

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.