Restore a refuge edge coastal prairie buffer segment, site 1, a public county road right of way.

The survey above found a bare or thinned coastal prairie buffer segment bordering the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, and hand cleared, hand seeded native prairie cover would otherwise close that gap and hold the refuge edge against wind and rain erosion.

Where

a public county road right of way in the coastal prairie bordering the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, between Austwell and Tivoli, TX, Refugio County · Open the map

Pay

$165 proposed

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Proof

before after photos plus seed mix and area seeded 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 buffer segment with county road staff and photograph the bare or thinned segment before starting.
2. 2. Hand clear non-native growth from the segment with hand tools only, no power equipment.
3. 3. Hand broadcast a native coastal prairie grass and forb seed mix across the cleared ground at the labeled application rate and rake it in.
4. 4. Photograph the finished prairie segment from the matching before vantage and record the seed mix and area seeded.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the bare or thinned segment
• Area hand cleared recorded
• Native coastal prairie seed mix product or label photo and area seeded recorded
• After photo of the seeded 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.