Fit a wildlife escape ramp.

This ranch's steel stock tank has smooth, vertical sides that trap birds, bats and small mammals that fall in trying to drink -- especially in the dry stretch of a Texas summer when the tank is often the only open water for a good distance; a fitted wire-and-wood escape ramp lets anything that falls in climb back out alive.

Where

a working ranch parcel outside Cleveland, TX 77327 (Liberty County); best-estimate location, exact address not confirmed; a working ranch with a steel livestock stock tank with smooth vertical sides · Open the map

Pay

$240 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 — recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

before/after photos + ramp-angle/anchor confirmation + GPS

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

Level

entry

Open until

2026-09-10

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 tank and ramp siting with the landowner; photograph the bare tank interior before starting.
2. 2. Build or fit a wire-and-wood (or commercial) escape ramp that reaches from the water surface to the tank rim at a shallow enough angle for a small animal to climb.
3. 3. Anchor the ramp so it cannot be dislodged by livestock or wind, and confirm it does not restrict livestock access to the water.
4. 4. Test the ramp's grip and angle by hand, and photograph the finished, installed ramp from the matching before vantage.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the bare tank interior with no escape route
• After photo of the installed, anchored ramp reaching the water surface
• Confirmation the ramp does not restrict livestock access

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.