Install a freshwater-mussel conservation sign.

the Little River public access point near the Brazos confluence has no sign telling visitors that freshwater mussels living in this reach are state-protected, that shells should be left in place, and where to report a sighting; without it, a visitor has no way to know that picking up an interesting shell may be both illegal and harmful to an already-imperiled species.

Where

a public road right of way near where the Little River joins the Brazos River, southeastern Milam County, TX (general corridor, never an asserted mile marker) · Open the map

Pay

$190 proposed

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Proof

811 locate confirm plus before after photos plus sign text legibility confirm plus GPS

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-06

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 sign post location is on public right of way or public access ground, never on private land, and call 811 before setting any post.
2. 2. Set the sign post by hand at the access point, away from the immediate water's edge and clear of any undercut bank.
3. 3. Mount the weatherproof panel stating that mussels here are state-protected, that shells should be left in place, and where to report a sighting (the state mussel-watch program); the panel never names or maps a specific bed.
4. 4. Photograph the finished, legible sign and confirm it is readable from the access point's normal foot-traffic path.

What counts as done

• 811 locate reference before setting the post
• Before photo of the access point with no sign present
• Photo confirming the sign text is legible and names no specific bed location
• Confirmation that this work never entered, waded into, snorkeled, dived in, or touched the water at any point and stayed on dry bank, a bar above the waterline, or a public bridge/road crossing, with the stand-off kept; that no mussel or shell, live or dead, was handled, collected, moved, repositioned, or taken, with the legal reason (protected-species risk) understood; that no bed or shell-concentration location was recorded or published, only the general public access point; that no water sample was collected and the streambed was not disturbed; and that the upstream weather/flash-flood watc
• After photo of the installed, mounted sign

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.