Plant a windbreak row to shelter a Gallup community site from spring dust.

Gallup's spring winds strip topsoil off bare lots and sandblast everything downwind. A planted windbreak row (junipers, native shrubs, staggered and watered in) at an invited community site cuts wind speed, holds soil, and shelters gardens and gathering spaces for decades.

Where

Invited community site near W Maloney Ave west side, Gallup, NM 87301 · Open the map

Pay

$340 proposed

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Proof

Planted-row photos + species/count with GPS

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-18

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. Plan the row line with the host across the prevailing spring wind direction and call 811.
2. Dig planting holes at staggered spacing with hand tools.
3. Plant hardy natives such as one-seed juniper, New Mexico olive, and rabbitbrush.
4. Water in deeply, basin and mulch each plant, and stake where wind-exposed.
5. Photograph the planted row and record species and count with date and GPS.

What counts as done

• Before and after photos of the row line
• Species and count list
• Photo of watered, mulched plants with date and GPS

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Tree Planting and Establishment. Planting a tree properly is a codified craft, and the arborists' standards are blunt about why: most young trees that die were killed at planting, by a hole dug too deep, a root ball left bound, a first summer without water. Mastery looks like trees you planted years ago still standing, which is the only measure arborists accept. The craft lives in exactly the steps this packet asks for: the wide shallow hole, the freed roots, the mulch kept off the trunk, the watering that follows. Plant one tree correctly and you know something real.