Remove invasive understory growth from the sabal palm grove, the park's public Green Jay Trail, site 2.

The survey above found invasive grass and vine encroachment crowding the sabal palm grove understory along the park's public Green Jay Trail; hand removal from the trail corridor protects sabal palm seedling recruitment in one of the last relict sabal palm groves in the United States.

Where

the public Green Jay Trail, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, 2800 S Bentsen Palm Drive (FM 2062), Mission, TX 78572 (Hidalgo County) · Open the map

Pay

$190 proposed

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Proof

park staff approval confirm plus before after photos plus seedlings undisturbed confirm plus GPS

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Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-05

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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. Photograph the invasive-encroached understory stretch before starting, from the maintained interior trail.
2. 2. Confirm with park staff that the removal area is approved and stays within the trail corridor, well inland of the park's separate river-adjacent trail. This is a border region and much of the surrounding floodplain is federal refuge land or private farmland; this work never crosses a levee toward the river, never approaches the border barrier, and never enters any refuge area closed to the public. All work stays on the confirmed public park path, public interior trail, public sidewalk or right of way, or resident's own home.
3. 3. Hand pull or hand cut invasive grass and vine growth from the trail corridor around the sabal palm grove, hand tools only, staying on or immediately beside the maintained trail tread.
4. 4. Photograph the cleared understory stretch and confirm sabal palm seedlings were left undisturbed.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the invasive-encroached understory stretch
• Park staff approval of the removal area recorded
• Confirmation that this job never entered the resaca or any pool or standing water, never waded, swam, or launched a boat, and stayed bank-top on the maintained park path, sidewalk, or designated interior trail at all times; that no water sample was collected and no plant was collected or its precise location published, and no bird nest, roost, or rookery location was recorded or published; that this work never crossed a levee toward the river, never approached the border barrier, and never entered a refuge area closed to the public; and that mosquito repellent, sun protection, and adequate wat
• Confirmation that sabal palm seedlings were left undisturbed
• After photo of the cleared understory stretch

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