Plant willow stakes to rebuild the Jordan River's west-side banks.

Bare, eroding stretches of the Jordan River's west-side banks dump sediment toward the Great Salt Lake and offer nothing to the birds that depend on this hemispheric flyway corridor. Live willow stakes driven in dormancy grow into bank-holding thickets: cheap, traditional, effective restoration.

Where

Approved bank section, Jordan River Parkway near 200 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84104 · Open the map

Pay

$320 proposed

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Proof

Staked-bank photos + count with GPS

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-18

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. Identify the eroding bank section with the host steward or commission contact.
2. Cut dormant willow stakes from a permitted donor stand, marking top ends.
3. Drive stakes two-thirds deep at close spacing across the eroding face from the stable upper bank.
4. Tamp soil around each stake and trim tops.
5. Photograph the staked bank and record count with date and GPS.

What counts as done

• Before and after bank photos
• Stake count and spacing note
• Date and GPS record

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.