Anyone can start here · Maxwell Road & Four Mile Road, Delevan NWR edge, Colusa County, CA (~4 mi east of Maxwell)
Build and install a wood-duck/songbird nest box.
Fund it for $110. Proof lands onchain when it's done.
$110 proposed
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What the work involvesDelevan NWR's managed wetlands support wood ducks and other cavity-nesting birds, but natural nesting cavities are scarce along the public road frontage where a ground-mounted box could add real nesting capacity for the flyway season.
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Steps
- 1. Build the nest box off-site at a bench using an approved wood-duck/songbird box plan (correct entrance-hole diameter for the target species, predator guard, hinged inspection side).
- 2. Transport the finished box to the road-frontage site adjacent to the refuge and select a post or low pole reachable from the ground -- no ladder, no climbing.
- 3. Mount the box at a reachable height (about 4-6 feet) facing open water/marsh visible from the public road, angled slightly downward to shed rain, using hand tools only.
- 4. Photograph the mounted box from the matching vantage and record the species-target, mount height, and orientation.
What counts as done
- Photo of the box built off-site with correct entrance-hole diameter and predator guard
- Before photo of the chosen post/pole with no box mounted
- After photo of the box mounted at a ground-reachable height, facing open water/marsh
- Species-target, mount height, and orientation recorded
Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.
The standard this serves
Wetland Condition. Wetlands are the landscape's kidneys and nurseries at once: they filter the water, absorb the flood, and raise the young of half the creatures around them. The EPA's rapid assessment gives a trained visitor a way to grade one honestly: the plants present, the water's path, the soil, the wear at the edges. Mastery looks like walking a marsh and knowing, defensibly, how it is doing and what threatens it. This packet is one such visit, one wetland's condition recorded to the method. What is watched can be defended; unwatched wetlands quietly disappear.
What is promised, and what is not.
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