The Bureau of Land Management, Rio Puerco Field Office awarded a purchase order to Unique Forestry LLC for $85,800 on September 25, 2026 under a Total Small Business set-aside. The order covers manual fuel reduction and tree thinning on approximately 156 acres of pinyon-juniper vegetation near Oso Ridge, Cibola County, New Mexico. Work runs from October 1, 2026 through February 1, 2027. The scope requires hand-cutting and piling of slash with 50-foot spacing between leave trees, retention of healthy ponderosa pine 12 inches diameter at breast height or larger, and construction of slash piles for subsequent BLM burning. Pricing is firm fixed-price based on the contractor's per-acre proposal.