Ernest E. Debs Regional Park, Montecito Heights, Los Angeles, CA 90031
Plant a shade-tree grove on the bare picnic-area slope, Ernest E. Debs Regional Park, Montecito Heights, Los Angeles, CA 90031.
A worker digs planting holes with a round-point shovel in utility-cleared soil and plants a grove of native shade trees across the bare slope at Ernest E Debs Regional Park, mulching and watering in each one at grade. Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $840 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- ProofGPS waypoints per tree + before/after grove photos + species/spacing log + mulch/watering-basin confirm per tree
- Open until2027-11-10
- Levelentry
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Plant a multi-tree shade grove across the bare picnic-area slope at Ernest E Debs Regional Park, Montecito Heights, Los Angeles, CA 90031. The survey is expected to find it wide and sun-baked with almost no canopy at all: families cluster under the one existing tree while the rest bakes through every summer weekend. Right-sized native and adapted species close that gap all at once. For the payer: - Price: $840 per job, counted in trees planted. - Likely payer: City Plants and StreetsLA Urban Forestry, for street tree work. - No license is needed while the whole job, labor and materials together, stays under $1,000 (Business and Professions Code section 7048); at $1,000 or more, a CSLB C-27 Landscaping license for planting, and D-49 Tree Service for any pruning or removal.
Offer to pay $840. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.
Safety, read before you claim
Start after the crew's safety orientation. The employer provides drinking water, shade and cool-down rests, and N95 masks when wildfire smoke puts the AQI at 151 or more. No other special training is needed. Stop, do not dig, and reschedule for an unmarked or suspected buried utility or no honored 811 locate; never plant dry, circling-rooted or wounded stock; coordinate with Los Angeles County Parks before work; wear safety-toe boots and leather gloves.
The full safety list for this job:
- Gear, Title 8 sections 3385 and 3384: safety-toe boots for root balls and stakes of 50 pounds or more that can drop; leather gloves for rough bark, stakes and ties.
- Wildfire smoke, section 5141.1: at a PM2.5 AQI of 151 or more the employer provides N95 respirators for voluntary use and moves the work indoors or cuts exposure where feasible; above AQI 500 respirators are required under a respiratory protection program.
- Heat, section 3395: drinking water, shade and cool-down rests; shade is ready at 80 F and the high-heat steps start at 95 F.
- Orientation, section 3203: the crew's injury and illness prevention program orientation comes before any work.
How this work is done
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Steps
- Record the request that sends you before any tool touches the ground: a MyLA311 service request number for this grove site, or the work order, written scope or approval number from StreetsLA Urban Forestry, City Plants or the park's gardener. Write it at the top of your proof. With none of these, stop and ask the host to file the request on MyLA311 (the app, myla311.lacity.org or 311).
- Confirm the utility locate is honored and mark the planting layout across the slope, spacing each site by the tree's mature canopy width.
- Photograph the bare slope before planting.
- Inspect the nursery stock and set aside any dry, circling-rooted or wounded trees.
- Dig each planting hole on the utility-cleared ground and set the tree at grade.
- Apply mulch 2 to 3 inches deep around each tree, keeping it off the trunk.
- Form a watering basin at each tree and water it in.
- Record the GPS waypoint, species and spacing for each planted tree.
- Photograph the planted grove from the same vantage as the before photo.
What counts as done
- GPS waypoint per planted tree inside the posting radius on utility-cleared ground
- Before photo of the bare slope + after photo of the planted grove from matching vantage
- Species and spacing log for the grove (right-sized natives/adapted species, staggered by mature canopy width)
- Mulch applied 2-3 inches deep and held off each trunk, with a watering basin formed and watered in per tree
- The request that sends you: the MyLA311 service request number, or the Urban Forestry, City Plants or park work order or approval number, written down before the first photo.
- Sign-off: the StreetsLA Urban Forestry or City Plants contact, or the park's gardener, signs off the finished work in writing. Write who signed and the date, or the date you asked.
- Photos: take the before photo and the after photo from the same point (stand where the first one was taken and match its frame), each with its GPS point and its date and time.
- Care, agreed before you plant: write who waters this planting and for how long (the payer's establishment period; three years is the usual ask), and who replaces a plant that dies. With no named steward, do not plant.
Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.
The standard this serves
Urban Canopy. Urban canopy is the layer of leaves over a city, and it is infrastructure as surely as the pipes below the street: shade that cools a block in a heat wave, roots that drink a storm. The i-Tree protocol turns it into something you can count, tree by tree, so a city knows what it has and what it is losing. Mastery looks like a person who can read a whole street's trees at a walk. This packet is a piece of that census: a few trees observed carefully and recorded where the record counts.
What is promised, and what is not
Three separate acts, never one: a vote is a free signed preference that moves no money; a pledge is free signed backing intent, balance-checked, that moves no money and never marks the packet funded; funding is a real payment, made by the payer straight to the worker, with no Vealth fee. Paying Vealth is closed: Vealth takes no new card or wallet payment for a job. To fund a job, offer to pay the worker directly, then pay them yourself when you accept the proof, from your own wallet or by your own card or bank. From a wallet: prepare_token_offer, sign, submit_token_offer; after the proof is accepted you pay the worker on chain and the worker records it (prepare_token_settlement, or POST /labor/settle for USDC on Base). By card or bank: prepare_direct_offer, sign, submit_direct_offer; you pay the worker yourself and the worker records it with prepare_direct_settlement. Both are free, need no gas, and move no money through Vealth.
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Other acts: vote, pledge, fund
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