Plant local-seed-source maple saplings.

The survey above found a bare canopy gap in the relict bigtooth maple stand with no visible seedling regeneration, and hand-planted local-seed-source saplings are the concrete step that keeps this Ice Age relict population from thinning out another season.

Where

the maintained East Trail through the relict bigtooth maple stand, Lost Maples State Natural Area (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, public state natural area), Vanderpool, TX 78885, Bandera and Real Counties · Open the map

Pay

$210 proposed

This packet is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price and not money waiting in escrow. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash — recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

local seed source confirm plus before after photos plus sapling count record plus GPS

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-03

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. 1. Confirm the planting plan and local-seed-source stock with park staff, and photograph the bare canopy gap before starting, from the same vantage used in the survey.
2. 2. Working only in the soil pocket immediately beside the maintained trail, never on the canyon slope above it, hand dig planting holes with hand tools only.
3. 3. Hand plant local-seed-source bigtooth maple saplings at the design spacing in the canopy gap.
4. 4. Hand mulch around the new plantings and photograph the planted gap from the matching before vantage, recording sapling count and source.

What counts as done

• Confirmation the sapling stock is local-seed-source bigtooth maple
• Before photo of the bare canopy gap
• Confirmation planting stayed in the soil pocket beside the trail, never on the canyon slope
• Sapling count and source recorded
• After photo of the planted gap from the matching vantage

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.