The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region awarded a $138,600.00 firm fixed price purchase order to Vegetation Management Services LLC (VMS), a HUBZone Woman Owned Small Business and Veteran Owned Business, for the Magnolia Bench Mastication project. The 600-acre contract, which is set aside for small businesses, involves the mastication of standing dead and live pinyon and juniper trees and mixed-mountain shrub in Meeker, Colorado. VMS is a certified small disadvantaged business and disadvantaged woman-owned small business that has been awarded over 20 federal contracts since 2019 to provide vegetation management services for agencies including the USDA Forest Service, Department of Interior, and Army Corps of Engineers.