Restore a cypress and tupelo slough margin.

A shallow slough margin along this floodplain-forest reach of B.A. Steinhagen Reservoir has lost cypress and tupelo canopy to invasive brush and sediment buildup, ground and water this floodplain forest depends on to hold its banks.

Where

Martin Dies Jr. State Park, Cherokee Unit day use area, 634 Park Road 48 South, between Woodville and Jasper, TX (public Texas state park, Tyler and Jasper counties) · Open the map

Pay

$200 proposed

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Proof

before/after photos plus brush/sediment-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 Texas Parks and Wildlife staff and photograph the eroding or canopy-gapped slough margin at the Cherokee Unit before starting.
2. 2. Working from stable footing or a canoe/kayak where the slough is too deep to wade, hand-clear invasive brush and loose sediment from the margin with hand tools only, no power equipment.
3. 3. Plant native bald cypress and water tupelo seedlings at the design spacing along the slough edge.
4. 4. Water in the planting where accessible and photograph the finished restoration from the matching before vantage, recording species and count.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the invasive-brush or sediment-choked slough margin
• Area of brush and sediment hand-cleared recorded
• Confirmation only hand tools were used
• Bald cypress and water tupelo seedling count recorded
• After photo of the restored slough margin 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.