The Department of the Interior National Park Service Southeast Region awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Tom Lodge, a small business sole proprietorship based in Pisgah Forest, North Carolina. The contract, valued at $124,058.70, is for Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) treatment services to suppress HWA populations and preserve Eastern Hemlock trees within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee. The work was set aside for total small business participation. Tom Lodge has an extensive track record of providing forestry services, including vegetation management and invasive species control, to the USDA Forest Service in the region under multiple small business contracts and Indefinite Delivery Vehicles.