Stabilize a bare gypsum dune or blowout segment, segment 1, Salt Basin trough, public county road shoulder, Culberson County, TX 79855.

This segment of the Salt Basin trough's gypsum-veneer ground is actively wind-eroding into a bare blowout, ground that a hand-set brush wattle and native gypsum-adapted planting would otherwise hold in place.

Where

Salt Basin trough, public county road shoulder, Culberson County, TX 79855 · Open the map

Pay

$190 proposed

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Proof

before/after photos plus wattle-length record plus species/count record plus GPS

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Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-01

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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 segment with Culberson County road staff and photograph the bare, wind-eroding gypsum-veneer dune or blowout before starting.
2. 2. Hand-set a low brush wattle or straw-wattle line across the windward face of the bare gypsum ground, hand tools only, no power equipment.
3. 3. Hand-plant gypsum-adapted native shrubs and grasses behind the wattle line at the design spacing.
4. 4. Water in where accessible and photograph the stabilized segment from the matching before vantage, recording the wattle length and species planted.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the bare, wind-eroding gypsum segment
• Wattle line length recorded
• Confirmation only hand tools were used
• Gypsum-adapted native species and count recorded
• After photo of the stabilized segment from the matching vantage

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Soil Health. Soil health is the discovery, now written into USDA standards, that soil is not dirt but a living body: it breathes, digests, holds water, and can sicken or recover. The tests are wonderfully physical. Time how fast water soaks in. See whether a clod holds together in water or falls apart. Smell for the sweetness of organic matter. Mastery looks like a farmer who can read a handful of ground like a page. This packet is one plot examined by those methods and recorded, one honest page in the story of a piece of land.