Plant native thornscrub to close a canopy structure gap, stretch 1, Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge visitor center vicinity, 22730 Buena Vista Blvd, Rio Hondo, TX 78583 (public USFWS refuge).

The survey above found a structural gap in the public-area thornscrub canopy and shrub layer, and refuge-coordinated hand planting of native thornscrub species restores the general landscape-scale habitat structure that regional ocelot conservation science treats as part of the connectivity picture, without ever targeting or disclosing a specific crossing point.

Where

Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge visitor center vicinity, 22730 Buena Vista Blvd, Rio Hondo, TX 78583 (public USFWS refuge) · Open the map

Pay

$190 proposed

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Proof

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

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Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-04

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. 1. Confirm the site and work plan with Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge staff before starting; this is public US Fish and Wildlife Service refuge land in the Tamaulipan thornscrub, adjoining fragmented private ranchland that is never entered or named.
2. 2. Photograph the structural gap before starting, from the same vantage used in the survey.
3. 3. Using hand tools, clear invasive grass or bare disturbed ground within the structural gap, staying on public refuge land at all times.
4. 4. Hand plant native Tamaulipan thornscrub species (such as cenizo, blackbrush, Texas ebony, or honey mesquite) at the design spacing and photograph the finished planting from the matching before vantage.

What counts as done

• Confirmation the stretch and planting plan were coordinated with Laguna Atascosa NWR staff
• Before photo of the structural gap
• Confirmation the work stayed on public refuge road, trail, or grounds at all times
• Confirmation no attempt was made to locate, track, call, bait, lure, spotlight, or photograph an ocelot, no camera trap was placed or checked, and no den, resting site, or sighting location was recorded anywhere in this work, beyond this def's own public-infrastructure coordinate.
• Native thornscrub species and count planted recorded
• After photo of the restored canopy structure from the matching vantage

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.