Restore a whooping crane wintering marsh zone.

The survey above found a bare or invasive choked zone of this whooping crane wintering marsh at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, and hand cleared, hand planted native wolfberry and marsh food plants would otherwise close that gap in the flock's winter food supply.

Where

the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge public auto tour area, reached via FM 2040 south of Austwell, TX 77950, Refugio County (public federal wildlife refuge, winter home of the whooping crane) · Open the map

Pay

$175 proposed

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Proof

before after photos plus species and plant 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 marsh zone and seasonal access window with US Fish and Wildlife Service refuge staff and photograph the bare or invasive choked zone before starting.
2. 2. Hand clear invasive plants from the zone with hand tools only, no power equipment, staying on the dry marsh edge above the waterline.
3. 3. Hand plant native wolfberry and marsh food plant seedlings at the design spacing along the cleared zone.
4. 4. Photograph the planted zone from the matching before vantage and record species and plant count.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the bare or invasive choked zone
• Confirmation only hand tools were used, work stayed on the dry marsh edge above the waterline
• Native wolfberry and marsh food plant species and plant count recorded
• After photo of the planted zone from the matching vantage

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.