Restore a hillside seep bog.

A hillside seep along this unit's rolling terrain is losing its native herbaceous and shrub seep vegetation to invasive growth and loose sediment, cover that would otherwise steady this slow spring-fed discharge before it reaches Beech Creek.

Where

Beech Creek Unit, Big Thicket National Preserve, Tyler County, TX (trailhead on FM 2992, public national preserve) · Open the map

Pay

$185 proposed

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Proof

before/after photos plus sediment/growth-cleared record plus species/count record plus GPS

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

Level

advanced

Open until

2026-09-30

Posted by

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How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. 1. Confirm the treatment segment with National Preserve staff and photograph the invasive-encroached hillside seep face before starting.
2. 2. Working from stable, dry footing at the seep's edge, hand-clear invasive growth and loose sediment from the seep discharge with hand tools only, no power equipment.
3. 3. Replant native herbaceous and shrub seep species at the design spacing across the cleared seep face.
4. 4. Water in the planting and photograph the finished restoration from the matching before vantage, recording species and count.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the invasive-growth or sediment-choked seep face
• Sediment or invasive growth volume hand-cleared recorded
• Confirmation only hand tools were used
• Native herbaceous or shrub species and count recorded
• After photo of the restored seep face from the matching vantage

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.