Restore native understory on the deep-sand ridge, stretch 4, the Village Slough Outer Loop trail, Village Creek State Park, 8854 Park Road 74, Lumberton, TX 77657, Hardin County.

The survey above found encroaching woody understory or bare disturbed sand crowding out the native bunchgrass groundcover on this stretch of deep-sand ridge, and TPWD coordinated hand thinning plus native replanting keeps this sandyland on track to carry the plant community the sand-to-clay hydrology itself makes possible.

Where

the Village Slough Outer Loop trail, Village Creek State Park, 8854 Park Road 74, Lumberton, TX 77657, Hardin County · Open the map

Pay

$180 proposed

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Proof

TPWD coordination confirm plus before after photos plus species and count record plus GPS

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Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-04

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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 site and work plan with Village Creek State Park staff before starting; this is public Texas Parks and Wildlife Department parkland on a deep-sand pine sandyland with adjoining baygall bog habitat.
2. 2. Photograph the encroaching understory or bare sand before starting, from the same vantage used in the survey.
3. 3. Using hand tools, thin encroaching woody understory immediately beside the trail tread on dry ridge ground, never leaving the trail corridor.
4. 4. Hand plant native sandyland groundcover species (little bluestem or similar bunchgrass, yaupon) in the cleared area and photograph the finished planting from the matching before vantage.

What counts as done

• Confirmation the stretch and planting plan were coordinated with Village Creek State Park staff
• Before photo of the encroaching understory or bare sand
• This work never leaves the maintained trail tread. The deep, droughty sand off-trail does not recover once compacted or rutted, and this trail sits directly above a fragile bog and seep system; staying on the tread protects both.
• Confirmation no wildlife was approached, fed, or baited
• Never collect, dig up, or remove any plant, including any orchid or carnivorous plant near the seep line; document and photograph only.
• Native species and count planted recorded
• After photo of the restored understory from the matching vantage

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