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SOLICITATION NO. 1284M819R0002

OFFERS ARE SOLICITED FOR: Fuels Reduction IDIQ - Mechanical Thinning

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SCHEDULE OF ITEMS: Fuels Management-Mechanical Thinning Activities

TASK ORDER COEFFICIENT

(For base and two options)

Humbolt-Toiyabe National Forest

1.1 Supervisor’s Office, Sparks NV

1.2 Carson Ranger District, Carson City NV

1.3 Bridgeport Ranger District, Bridgeport, CA

1.4 Sierra Front Interagency Fire Dispatch Center, Carson City, NV

1.5 Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, Las Vegas, NV

1.6 Austin Ranger District, Austin, NV

1.7 Tonopah Ranger District, Tonopah, NV

1.8 Ely Ranger District, Ely, NV

1.9 Mountain City Ranger District, Elko, NV

1.10 Ruby Mountains/Jarbridge Ranger Districts, Wells, NV

1.11 Santa Rosa Ranger District, Winnemucca, NV

Ashley National Forest

2.1 Supervisor’s Office, & Vernal Ranger District, Vernal, UT

2.2 Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Manila, UT

2.3 Dutch John Office, Dutch Joh, UT

2.4 Green River Office, Green River, WY

2.5 Dutchesne/Roosevelt Ranger Districts, Duchesne, UT

2.6 Roosevelt Office, Roosevelt, UT

Dixie National Forest

3.1 Supervisor’s Office, Cedar City, UT

3.2 Pine Valley Ranger District, St. George, UT

3.3 Cedar City Ranger District, Cedar City, UT

3.4 Powell Ranger District, Panguitch, UT

3.5 Excalante Ranger District, Escalante, UT

3.6 Loa/Teasdale Ranger District, Loa & Teasdale, UT

Fishlake National Forest

4.1 Supervisor’s Office & Richfield Ranger District, Richfield, UT

4.2 Fillmore Ranger District, Fillmore, UT

4.3 Beaver Ranger District, Beaver, UT

Manti-La Sal National Forest

5.1 Supervisor’s Office & Price Ranger District, Price, UT

5.2 Sanpete Ranger District, Ephraim, UT

Line Item Description Qty. Unit

Maximum Pricing Per Acre Base Option 1 Option 2

8.A Thinning Each Acre 8.B Chipping Each Acre 8.C Mastication Each Acre 8.D Mowing Each Acre 8.E Wet Mowing Each Acre 8.F Harrowing Each Acre 8.G Chaining Each Acre 8.H Piling Each Acre 8.I Skidding and/or Decking Each Acre 8.J Control Line/Unit Preparation/Water Barring Each Acre

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5.3 Ferron Ranger District, Ferron, UT

5.4 Moab Ranger District, Moab, UT

5.5 Monticello Ranger District, Monticello, UT

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest

6.1 Supervisor’s Office, Provo, UT

6.2 Heber Ranger District, Heber City, UT

6.3 Pleasant Grove Ranger District, Pleasant Grove, UT

6.4 Spanish Fork Ranger District, Spanish Fork & Nephi, UT

6.5 Supervisor’s Office & Salt Lake City Ranger District, Salt Lake City, UT

6.6 Kamas Ranger District, Kamas, UT

6.7 Evanston Ranger District, Evanston, WY

6.8 Logan Ranger District, Logan, UT

Boise National Forest

7.1 Supervisor’s Office & Lucky Peak Nursery, Boise, ID

7.2 Mountain Home Ranger District, Mountain Home, ID

7.3 Idaho City Ranger District, Idaho City, ID

7.4 Cascade Ranger District, Cascade, ID

7.5 Lowman Ranger District, Lowman, ID

7.6 Emmett Ranger District, Emmett, ID

Bridger-Teton National Forest

8.1 Supervisor’s Office, & Jackson Ranger District, Jacksonl, WY

8.2 Kemmerer Ranger District, Kemmerer, WY

8.3 Big Piney Ranger District, Big Piney, WY

8.4 Greys River Ranger District, Afton, WY

8.5 Blackrock Ranger District, Moran, WY

8.6 Pinedale Ranger District, Pinedale, WY

Caribou-Targhee National Forest

9.1 Supervisor’s Office & Palisades Ranger District, Idaho Falls, ID

9.2 Ashton/Island Park Ranger District, Ashton & Island Park, ID

9.3 Dubois Ranger District, Dubois, ID

9.4 Montpelier Ranger District, Montpelier, ID

9.5 Soda Springs Ranger District, Soda Springs, ID

9.6 Teton Basin Ranger District, Driggs, ID

9.7 Westside Ranger District, Pocatello, ID

Payette National Forest

10.1 Supervisor’s Office & Krassel & McCall Ranger Districts, McCall, ID

10.2 Council Ranger District, Council, ID

10.3 New Meadow Ranger District, New Meadows, ID

10.4 Weiser Ranger District, Weiser, ID

Salmon-Challis National Forest

11.1 Supervisor’s Office & Salmon/Cobalt Ranger District, Salmon, ID

11.2 North Fork Ranger District, North Fork, ID

11.3 Challis, Middle Fork & Yankee Fork Ranger Districts, Challis, ID

11.4 Leadore Ranger District, Leadore, ID

11.5 Lost River Ranger District, Mackay, ID

Sawtooth National Forest

12.1 Supervisor’s Office, Twin Falls, ID

12.2 Minidoka Ranger District, Burley, ID

12.3 Ketchum Ranger District, Ketchum, ID

12.4 Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Ketchum, ID

12.5 Fairfield Ranger District, Fairfield, ID

The line items may be cumulative, for example, if a task order calls for thinning and lop and scatter, Contractors will include pricing for thinning plus lop and scatter— Contractors will need to provide pricing for thinning PLUS, cost of skidding and decking.

Under this Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Contract, only approved Contractors are eligible to compete for the task orders issued for the line items listed above. Contractors will not be required to propose on every solicitation if they have reached their maximum dollar limit, in accordance with Contract Clause 52.216-19, Order Limitations (OCT 1995), or if they have gotten prior approval from the Contracting Officer.

The solicitations for the task orders will provide the specifications required in order for a Contractor to respond with an offer. The award selection for the task orders will be based on the most reasonable competitive pricing offers and on the Contractor’s past performance on prior task orders awarded under this contract.

QUOTE ALL ITEMS

Offeror’s shall submit a price proposal for all base and option year line items, walk in, and coefficients for forest they will provide services. Failure to comply with the instructions may render your proposal incomplete and ineligible for possible contract award.

COEFFICIENTS

The Coefficients are listed in THE SCHEDULE OF ITEMS and are proposed by the offeror. Due to the wide geographic distribution of potential Task Orders and the possible variability in cost based on location of the work, THE SCHEDULE is broken down into Forests. An offeror shall propose a Task Order Coefficient for one or more Forests. Within the proposed Forest(s), the offeror shall propose Location Coefficient for each Ranger District within that Forest. The proposed Coefficient for each Ranger District shall cover all areas within the Administrative Area/Boundary of that District. Information regarding National Forest Boundary maps may be found at http://www.fs.fed.us/maps/forest-maps.shtml.

The coefficients are the maximum that a contractor can propose on an individual Task Order. Each Task order will be competed amongst the contractors receiving awards for the individual forest.

The coefficients are proposed as a percentage (in decimal format) increase or decrease to the line item pricing. For example, a coefficient of 1.2 would result in an additional 20 percent to the listed unit price; 0.9 would result in a 10 percent decrease of the listed prices, and 1.00 would leave the unit price as your proposed unit price. The offeror shall limit the Coefficients to three decimal places. The offeror’s Coefficients must be all-inclusive and shall include, but is not limited to, the following costs:

1. Overhead

2. Profit and risk

3. General insurances

4. Workman’s compensations insurance

5. State unemployment insurance

6. Federal unemployment insurance

7. Mobilization and demobilization costs

8. Site cleanup

9. Supervision

10. Quality control

11. Transportation of contractor’s personnel to, from, and within the job site

12. Shipping of all materials to the jobsite

13. Lodging and per-diem

14. Adjustment factors to account for small jobs

15. Incidental tools and equipment

16. Submittals (unless noted otherwise)

17. Task Order preparation costs

AGAR 452.216-73 MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM CONTRACT AMOUNTS (FEB 1988)

During the period specified in FAR clause 52.216-18, ORDERING, the Government shall place orders totaling a minimum of $2,500.00 but not in excess of $1,000,000.00

AGAR 452.216-74 CEILING PRICE (FEB 1988)

The ceiling price of this contract is $3,000,000.00 for base and any exercised option years. The contractor shall not make any expenditures over this amount, except at the Contractor’s own risk.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK/STATEMENT OF WORK

1. Introduction The Forest Service is in need of services for vegetation treatment for the purpose of reducing the risk of wildfires and reducing tree densities on all Region 4 National Forests.

2. Background Project area are reforested areas, natural and managed stands of timber of all ages, size, and species, shrub fields, or grass areas. Fuels will consist of harvest activity slash, natural fuels, live fuels, and slashed shrubs and trees. Fuel loadings range from less than ½ ton per acres to as high as 200 tons or more per acre.

Treatments such as brushing and piling have been shown to reduce the risk of wildfires and the severity of fires that do occur. Reducing competition between trees through the deliberate selection of leave trees will improve the overall health and condition of the stand based on the prescribed objectives. Tree selection and cutting of undesirable or excess trees will provide space for the leave trees to grow and develop, reduce the incidence of insect and diseases that affect growth, and undesirable tree qualities. It is the objective of this contract to treat vegetation and fuels present on units identified by the Forests to reduce fuel loading, optimize the treatment of those fuels to the most effective burning period, and decrease competition with residual trees.

3. Scope of Contract The services of this contract are designed to provide for fuels reduction, and timber stand improvement in Region 4 National Forests or on adjacent to R4 where cross boundary services can achieve project objectives.

This includes furnishing labor, supervision, equipment, transportation, operating supplies (except those designated as Government furnished), and incidentals to perform all work necessary as listed in the schedule of items. This work may include cutting standing dead or alive and or downed and dead material laying on the ground or as specified in the task order.

4. Location of Project Areas The work will be performed on U.S. Forest Service administered lands, or adjacent lands. Location maps where the work activities are to be performed will be provided at pre-award site visits and in the individual task orders.

5. Boundaries of Project Areas The project areas are generally identifiable as logged units, by changes in vegetation, roads, flagging, or by GPS technology. The boundaries can be adjacent timber stands, recent harvest units, or other natural or manmade features that clearly define the boundary as noted on the project area maps. Individual task orders will define boundary delineation.

6. Access to Project Areas Access is by all-weather and seasonal roads. Seasonal roads may be impassable for several days after heavy rains, or snow-blocked during the winter months. Some units require the Contractor to walk, or walk in the piece of equipment; access will be from the closest open road as defined on the motor vehicle use map. After initial clearing of the access roads by the Government, the Contractor shall clear any subsequent falling of trees that block roads needed to access units. Individual task orders will indicate access for each treatment unit.

7. SPECIFIC LINE ITEMS

Mechanical Treatment Activities Mechanical activity shall be accomplished throughout the entire unit, excluding areas identified by the task order as reserved from treatment.

Contractor shall select the most desirable leave species and/or dead/down woody material based on the task order.

Spacing may be altered up to 50% to achieve the desirable stocking levels identified in the task order to select and retain the most desirable species.

Mechanical equipment will meet the contractor’s proposal and be described in response to the task order.

Implementation of the activity will be conducted as specified in task order and avoids or minimizes damage to residual vegetation.

8. Line Item Description

A. Thinning Vegetation manipulation activity to reduce the density of vegetation(s) by purposeful selection of vegetation to leave. Sever stems to levels and standards specified in the task order.

Treatment specification for cutting are determined by the task order. Each task order will specify acceptable density of leave vegetation, vegetation size limits for treatment including height or diameter, whether hardwoods and/or conifers are included, preferred vegetation leave species, unique treatment unit requirements and if any individual species are reserved from treatment. The task order will define characteristics of desirable leave trees.

All identified vegetation shall be completely severed from the base/stump and have no live limbs remaining on stump to prevent growing new vegetative material. Cut/thinned vegetation designated to remain on site shall be secured so they do not roll down hill and shall not be hung up on other trees or vegetation.

Desirable Leave Tree Characteristics:

Trees that are desirable to be leave trees have the following characteristics:

• Straight stem

• Small branch diameter

• Good coloration

• Well-formed crown

• Branches horizontal or slightly angled to bole

• Free of insect or disease damage and/or symptoms.

• Vigorous annual terminal growth (especially in last 1 to 3 years)

• Crown class of dominant or co-dominant

• Crown ratio is 40% or larger

Characteristics of trees that are not desirable for leave trees:

• Multiple tops

• Poor crown form

• Crook or seep in bole

• Dead or broken tops

• Poor coloration

• Large branch diameter

• Presence of insect or diseases

• Branches more than 45 degrees from horizontal

• Physical or mechanical damage

• Suppressed

• Poor annual growth

• Sucker limbs

B. Chipping Vegetation manipulation activity to reduce the density of vegetation(s) by purposeful selection of vegetation to leave. Sever stems and scatter chips and/or mulch to levels and standards specified in the task order.

Treatment specifications for chipping are determined by the task order. Each task order will specify acceptable density of leave vegetation, vegetation size limits for treatment including height or diameter, whether hardwoods and/or conifers are included, preferred vegetation leave species, unique treatment unit requirements and if any individual species are reserved from treatment. The task order will define characteristics of desirable leave trees.

C. Mastication vegetation to leave.

Treatment specifications for hand piling are determined by the task order. Each task order will specify acceptable density of leave vegetation, vegetation size limits for treatment including height or diameter, whether hardwoods and/or conifers are included, preferred vegetation leave species, unique treatment unit requirements and if any individual species are reserved from treatment. The task order will define characteristics of desirable leave trees.

Sever stems and/or scatter chips and/or mulch to levels and standards specified in the task order.

All vegetation not designated as leave vegetation shall be masticated. Leave vegetation shall not be damaged in the operation. As a safety measure, no sharply angled stumps or “punji sticks” will be left.

D. Mowing vegetation to leave. Sever stems to levels and standards specified in the task order.

Treatment specifications for mowing are determined by the task order. Task order will specify preferred vegetation leave species, unique treatment unit requirements and if any individual species are reserved from treatment. The task order will define characteristics and patterns of desirable leave vegetation.

All vegetation not designated as leave vegetation shall be mowed. Leave vegetation shall not be damaged in the operation.

E. Wet Mowing

Treatment specifications for wet mowing are determined by the task order. Task order will specify are reserved from treatment. The task order will define characteristics and patterns of desirable leave

All vegetation not designated as leave vegetation shall be mowed. Leave vegetation shall not be

F. Harrowing

Treatment specifications for harrowing are determined by the task order. Task order will specify are reserved from treatment. The task order will define characteristics and patterns of desirable leave

All vegetation not designated as leave vegetation shall be cut/thinned. Leave vegetation shall not be

G. Chaining vegetation to leave.

Treatment specifications for chaining are determined by the task order. Task order will specify are reserved from treatment. The task order will define characteristics and patterns of desirable leave

All vegetation not designated as leave vegetation shall be chained. Leave vegetation shall not be

H. Piling Piling of specified material within treatment unit or in designated areas.

Treatment specifications for piling are determined by the task order. Task order will define; the amount, arrangement and size of material to be left in the unit, pile size, pile location, and proximity to leave trees or vegetation.

I. Skidding and/or Decking The moving by dragging or hauling of vegetative materials to consolidate, disperse or arrange as specified in task order.

Treatment specifications for skidding and/or decking are determined by the task order. Task order will define; the amount, arrangement and size of material to be left in the unit, pile size, pile location, and proximity to leave trees or vegetation.

Task order will identify requirements for operation corridors and restrictions.

J. Control Line/Unit Preparation/Water Barring.

Control Line is a constructed or natural barrier and treated fire edge used to control a fire. Unit Preparation is to reduce the competition of unwanted vegetation in order to increase the survival and growth rate of the desired trees, remove slash and logging debris if the sire has been harvested, and to prepare or modify the soil. This can be used in conjunction with site preparation for prescribed burning purposes. Water Barring is to dissipate the flow of water down the trail, road, fire line, dozer line, in order to reduce erosion and sediment delivery to streams.

Treatment specifications for control lines/unit preparation/water barring are determined by the task order.

The Forest Service will designate control lines (if constructed) on the ground and provide the Contractor with a written description of the work standards in the Silvicultural Summary Prescription or the Task Order.

Unless otherwise specified in the task order, mechanical constructed control line consists of utilizing mechanized equipment to scrape a continuous mineral soil line, as determined in the specific task order. Cut material and existing down wood removed from the control line shall be scattered within the cutting area and not windrowed or otherwise concentrated adjacent to the control line. All existing stumps and snags within the control line clearing limits shall be cut flush at ground level and/or scraped around down to mineral soil to remove fuels and prevent ignition. Do not mix slash with side cast material and control line shall be constructed on the exterior/interior edge of the existing or newly constructed fuel break, or as specified for unit preparation.

The Contractor shall not move to a new unit without completion of treatment.

Thinning criteria are the same as stated above.

Chipping criteria are the same as stated above.

Mastication criteria are the same as stated above.

Mowing criteria are the same as stated above.

Wet Mowing criteria are the same as stated above.

Harrowing criteria are the same as stated above.

Chaining criteria are the same as stated above.

Piling criteria are the same as stated above.

Skidding and Decking criteria are the same as stated above.

9. Reservoir or Stream Courses. Trees shall be directionally felled away from reservoirs or stream courses.

Stream courses identified on project maps shall be free of activity slash for a distance of 20 feet from the high water mark on either side of the stream course.

The following improvement and developments shall be free from treatment slash created by the tasks in this contract:

• The area adjacent to cut and fill slopes, and ditches for a distance of 10 feet measured from the upper cut slope and the lower shoulder of the road. Material shall be less than 6 feet in length to prevent barriers along roads.

• Culverts for a distance of 15 feet.

• Improvements such as unit boundaries, roads, telephone lines, power lines, established trails, stock driveways, fence lines, established land corners. Do not fall any trees which may fall on power lines.

• Reservoir or stream courses as required in the task order.

10. Work Plan and Schedule The Contractor shall prepare a work plan and schedule that demonstrates that work will be completed within the performance period described in solicitation. The Contractor shall provide a general plan with the technical proposal. A supplementary plan and schedules will be provided after contract award, but before start work.

The Contractor shall advise the Contracting Officer or COR of any periods that the Contractor will not be working that is not specified in the accepted Work Plan.

The Contractor may update the work plan when work is in progress and the Contracting Officer may accept the updated work plan.

11. Communications

The Contractor shall keep the Contracting Officer advised as to where the Contractor or Contractor's representative may be reached by phone during periods of work suspension and periods of time without work. Further, the Contractor shall maintain contact with the Contracting Officer during periods of work suspension or periods of time without work.

For the life of this contract, the contractor shall monitor the email address and telephone number provided to the government. The government requires response to email or telephone inquiries within three days. Not responding within three days is an un-satisfactory business practice and will reflect unfavorably on the performance evaluation, subsequent source selections, and may result in contract termination. Email sent by the government to the contractor shall be considered received the same day they are sent.

12. On-Site Representative

The Contractor’s on-site representative shall be fully conversant and literate in the English language and shall be in the work area whenever work is in progress.

13. Pre-work Meetings Prior to commencement of work under task orders, approved Contractors shall be required to attend pre-work meetings to discuss the terms and conditions of the task orders, the work performance requirements, safety, and complete other paperwork, as required to commence work.

14. Measurement

The area to be treated will be stated in the task order. All linear and area measurements under this contract are measured on a horizontal plane within the established boundaries. Acreages will be determined using GIS by digitizing boundaries from ortho-photos and calculating the acreages.

Boundaries are marked as indicated in the task order.

15. Re-Measurement

The Contractor may at any time after award request re-measurement of any Item. The request must be in writing within 10 days after completion of a unit or pay item. The method of re-measurement will be the same as the original method of measurement used, unless another method is mutually agreed upon. The Government’s re-measurement of the Item will be made within established boundaries.

If re-measurement indicates a variance of 5 percent or less in the acreage stated in the task order, there will be no adjustment in acres and the Contractor shall pay for the actual cost of re-measurement.

If re-measurement results in a variance greater than 5 percent in the acreage stated in the task order, payment shall be based on the re-measured acreage and the Government shall pay for the re-measurement.

16. DEFINITIONS

Accessible: Road access to a unit. Unit will be considered accessible when road access is within 1/4 mile of the unit. Only roads on the motor vehicle use map will be considered accessible.

Acceptable (Stocking) Density: The number of trees between the minimum and maximum specified in a task order.

Additives: Items that may be included in a task order along with the mandatory line items for which performance is subject to availability of funding.

Aerial Fuels: All live and dead vegetation in the forest canopy or above surface fuels , including tree branches, twigs and cones, snags, moss, and high brush.

Biomass: Biomass is any organic matter that is available on a renewable or recurring basis, including trees, plants and associated residues; plant fiber; poultry litter and other animal wastes; industrial waste;

and the paper component of municipal waste.

Blackline: Pre-burning of fuels adjacent to a control line before igniting a prescribed burn. Blacklining is usually done in heavy fuels adjacent to a control line during periods of low fire danger to reduce heat on holding crews and lessen chances for spotting across control line. In fire suppression, a blackline denotes a condition where there is no unburned material between the fire line and the fire edge.

Blowdown: Tree or trees felled or broken off by wind.

Brush: A collective term that refers to stands of vegetation dominated by shrubby, woody plants or low-growing trees, usually of a type undesirable for livestock or timber management.

Bucking: To saw felled trees into a shorter length.

Buffer Zones:

1. An area of reduced vegetation that separates wildland areas from vulnerable residential or business developments. This barrier is similar to a greenbelt in that it is often used for another purpose such as agriculture or recreation, or parks or golf courses.

2. A vegetation strip or management zone of varying size, shape, and character maintained along a stream, lake, road, recreation site, or different vegetative zone to mitigate the impacts of actions on adjacent lands, to enhance aesthetic value, or as a best management practice.

Burning Out: Setting fire inside a control line to consume fuel between the edge of the fire and the control line.

Burned Area Rehabilitation: The post-fire activities prescribed and implemented to rehabilitate and restore fire damaged lands.

Cambium: A layer of living cells between the wood and the innermost bark of a tree.

Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR): The on-site contract administrator for the Contracting Officer. The duties and responsibilities of the COR are defined in the letter of designation issued by the Contracting Officer.

Control Line: A constructed or natural barrier and treated fire edge used to control a fire.

Cultural and/or Threatened and Endangered (T&E) Sites: Locations where special protection is required to preserve and protect cultural values and species of plants or animals listed on the T&E list.

Damage: Defect or deformity of a tree resulting from agents such as wind, snow, animals, insects, disease, and equipment, and evidenced by such things as dead or broken tops or trunks, crooks, and deep scars or damage to the bark on more than ¼ of the circumference of the tree.

Dead Fuels: Fuels with no living tissue in which moisture content is governed almost entirely by atmospheric moisture (relative humidity and precipitation), dry-bulb temperature, and solar radiation.

Defensible Space: An area either natural or manmade where material capable of causing a fire to spread has been treated, cleared, reduced, or changed to act as a barrier between an advancing wildland fire and resources or lives at risk. In practice, defensible space is generally defined as an area of 30 feet or more around a structure that is cleared of flammable brush or vegetation or other fuels.

DBH: Diameter measured at breast height, 4.5 feet above ground.

Dominant Tree: Tree whose crown extends above the general level of the main canopy; or in some cases, a tree whose canopy is above the main canopy of the tree’s immediate neighbors, receiving full light from above.

Dormant Season Burning: Prescribed fire early in the dry season before the leaves and undergrowth are completely dry or before leaves are shed, as an insurance against more severe fire damage later on.

DRC: Diameter at Root Collar. Diameter measured at collar near ground line.

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Dripline: the line extending vertically from the exterior edge of a tree live crown to the ground.

Duff: The layer of decomposing organic materials lying below the litter layer of freshly fallen twigs, needles, and leaves and immediately above the mineral soil.

Excess Trees: Uncut trees, according to specifications, that should have been cut. Trees not severed from the stump, hang-up trees, and stumps with live limbs. When girdling or pruning is required, excess trees also includes trees not girdled or trees not pruned that, according to specification, should have been girdled or pruned.

FBPS Fuel Models: There are 13 fuel models used for estimating fire behavior. As described by Anderson H.E., Aids to Determining Fuel Models for Estimating Fire Behavior, GTR INT-122/NFES 1574, April 1982.

Fine Fuels: Fast-drying fuels, generally with a comparatively high surface area-to-volume ratio, which are less than 1/4-inch in diameter and have a time lag of one hour or less. These fuels ignite readily and are rapidly consumed by fire when dry.

Fire Break: A natural or constructed barrier used to stop or check fires, or to provide a control line from which to work.

Fire line: A fire control line that is dug or scraped to mineral soil by hand or machine according to minimum clearance standards. In certain areas this may be a natural barrier (road, river, rock, etc.).

Flank Lines: A fire control line constructed on the side of the unit (running across contours, i.e., up or down the slope).

Flash Fuels: Fuels such as grass, leaves, pine needles, ferns, tree moss, and some types of slash, flash fuels or flashy fuels ignite readily and are consumed rapidly when dry. Also called fine fuels.

Forb: A plant with a soft rather than permanent woody stem, that is not a grass or grass-like plant.

Fuel: Combustible material. Includes vegetation such as grass, leaves, ground litter, plants, shrubs, and trees that feed a fire. (Also see Surface Fuels.)

Fuel Loading: The amount of fuels present expressed quantitatively in terms of weight per unit area.

Fuel Break- Shaded/unshaded: A shaded fuel break is a forest management strategy used for mitigating the threat of wildfire in areas where natural fire regimes have been suppressed, leading to a dangerous buildup of combustible vegetation. Constructing a shaded fuel break is the process of selectively thinning and removing more flammable understory vegetation while leaving the majority of larger, more fire tolerant tree species in place.

Fuels Management: Management of wildland fuel complexes to achieve hazardous fuel reduction, to achieve and maintain ecosystem restoration, and to maintain ecosystem health and other resource benefits. Management includes strategic planning and site-specific and landscape-scale treatments designed to improve abilities to protect life and property, and to maintain or restore the sustainability of healthy ecosystems. Fuel management is accomplished by the application and integration of a variety of treatments that will minimize the probability and effects of large-scale, high-intensity fires. These treatments, a variety of fire and non-fire techniques, include, but are not limited to, mechanical, chemical, biological, and manual methods, and prescribed fire and wildland fire use. Both naturally occurring fuels and hazardous fuel accumulations resulting from resource management and land use activities must be addressed.

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Fuel Model: Simulated fuel complex (or combination of vegetation types) for which all fuel descriptors required for the solution of a mathematical rate of spread model have been specified.

Fuel Moisture: The quantity of moisture in fuels expressed as a percentage of the weight when thoroughly dried at 212 degrees Fahrenheit. Also referred to as fuel moisture content.

Fuels Reduction: Manipulation, including combustion or removal of fuels to reduce the likelihood of ignition and/or to lessen potential damage and resistance to control. Often includes thinning and/or prescribed burning.

Fuel Treatment: Any vegetation manipulation and/or removal/modification of wildland fuels to reduce the likelihood of ignition, to reduce potential fire intensity and spread rates, to lessen potential damage and resistance to control, or to limit the spread and proliferation of invasive species and diseases. Fuels treatments achieve site-specific fire and resource management objectives under approved land use plans and with full compliance to NEPA and other regulatory statutes.

Fuel Type: An identifiable association of fuel elements of a distinctive plant species, form, size, arrangement, or other characteristics that will cause a predictable rate of fire spread or difficulty of control under specified weather conditions.

Girdle: A cut through the bark and cambium tissue completely encircling the tree trunk for the purpose of killing the tree.

Growing Season Burning: Prescribed burning or use of wildland fire during the photosynthetically-active growing season, where live fuel moistures are relatively high and the dominant vegetation, grasses, forbs, and herbaceous vegetation are fully greened.

Ground Fuels: All combustible materials below the surface litter, including duff, tree or shrub roots, punky wood, peat, sawdust, and other materials that can support a glowing combustion without flame.

Hand Line: A fire line built with hand tools, such as shovels and Pulaski’s.

Hazard Fuel Reduction: Removal of excessive live or dead wildland fuel accumulations for the strict objective of reducing the potential for the occurrence of uncharacteristically intense wildland fire and increasing capabilities to protect life and property, including communities at risk and sensitive municipal watersheds; sensitive natural resources, including critical native plant communities and threatened and endangered species; and other socially important cultural resources.

Hazard Reduction: Any treatment of a hazard that reduces the threat of ignition and fire intensity or rate of spread.

Heavy Fuels: Fuels of large diameter such as snags, logs, and large limb wood, which ignite and are consumed more slowly than flashy fuels.

Hang-Up Tree: Any cut tree suspended more than 3 feet off the ground.

Healthy Conifer: Trees that are growing well, exhibited by good leader growth, green foliage, and at least 40 percent crown ratio (ratio of crown to overall length), has upright growth form, absence of forking or broken tops, absence of mortality causing diseases or insects in the terminal buds.

Jackpot: Concentration of slash or natural fuels, heavier than the surrounding areas.

Ladder Fuels: Fuels which provide vertical continuity between strata, thereby allowing fire to carry

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Leave Trees: Any tree that is selected or required to be left standing according to requirements in the task order. Trees that are of preferred species, free of insect or disease infection, or if it is present does not threaten the tree survival or growth, exhibits leader dominance and growth, exhibits little or no damage that affects tree survival or growth, and has crown ratio of greater than 40% (ratio of crown to overall length).

Leave Trees Per Acre: The number of leave trees within one acre. Generally referred to average leave trees per acre calculated from one or more plot samples.

No. of trees per plot X reciprocal of plot size = leave trees per acre, and

Total trees on all plots X reciprocal of plot size = leave trees per acre

Total no. plots taken

Light Fuels: Fast-drying fuels, generally with a comparatively high surface area-to-volume ratio, which are less than 1/4-inch in diameter and have a time lag of one hour or less. These fuels ignite readily and are rapidly consumed by fire when dry.

Litter: Top layer of the forest, scrubland, or grassland floor, directly above the fermentation layer. It's composed of loose debris including sticks, branches, twigs, and recently fallen leaves or needles, little altered in structure by decomposition.

Live Fuels: Living plants, such as trees, grasses, and shrubs, in which the seasonal moisture content cycle is controlled largely by internal physiological mechanisms rather than by external weather influences.

Long-interval fire-adapted plant communities: Plant communities that have developed under an environment infrequent but high intensity or mixed severity fire occurrence. Fuels accumulate at slow but steady rates between fire events but are subject to dramatic changes following each high intensity fire event. Also see short-interval fire-adapted plant communities.

Live Limb: A limb of any size that has green needles attached.

Lopping: After felling, cutting branches, tops, and unwanted boles into lengths such that resultant logging debris will lie close to the ground.

Lopping and Scattering: Lopping logging debris and spreading it more evenly on the ground. This may involve physically spreading slash in order to achieve a slash height of 18” or less or as specified in individual task order.

Mineral Soil: Soil layers below the predominantly organic layers; soil with little combustible material.

Missing Leave Trees: Trees cut that should have been selected as a leave tree.

Minor Damage: Trees with damage, however, the crooks in the trunk are offset less than 3 inches from the long axis and within 13 feet of the ground, or bark damage to less than one-fourth the circumference of the tree. Trees with forks or broken tops are not considered to have minor damage.

Piling and Burning: Piling slash resulting from logging or fuel management activities and subsequently burning the individual fires.

Project Area: The area being treated with prescribed fire and any escapes or spot fires resulting from the prescribed fire.

Pruning: Severing of all limbs along bole of tree or shrub to remove diseased infested branches or material that creates a fuel ladder to the remaining crowns.

Punji Stick: A sharply angled tree stump of the smaller diameter.

Quality Assurance: The actions taken by the Government to assess the results to determine that they meet contract requirements. The methods for quality assurance are described in the Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP).

Quality Control: Those actions taken by a Contractor to control the production of outputs to ensure that they conform to the contract requirements. The methods for inspecting for quality control are described in the Contractor’s Quality Control Plan (QCP).

Rehabilitation: Commonly referred to as "rehab," the work necessary to repair damage or disturbance caused by wildland fire or suppression activities. Often includes restoration of fire lines or dozer work, and projects such as erosion control, installation of water bars or culverts, re-seeding or other rehab of fire-damaged areas.

Reserved Trees or Reserved Areas: Individual species of trees or certain areas within a treatment unit that the contract or COR designates are reserved from treatment.

Site Preparation: Removal or killing unwanted vegetation, residue, etc. by use of fire, herbicides, or mechanical treatment in preparation for reforestation and future management.

Slash: Debris left after logging, pruning, thinning, or brush cutting; can include logs, chips, bark, branches, stumps and broken understory trees or brush.

Slashing: Slashing could mean cutting standing dead or alive and or downed and dead material laying on the ground or as specified in the task order.

Snag: A standing dead tree or part of a dead tree from which at least the smaller branches have fallen.

Spacing: The horizontal distance from the trunk of one leave tree to the trunk of the next nearest leave tree. Average spacing is determined by the contractor from the leave trees per acre.

Spark Arrester: A device installed in a chimney, flue, or exhaust pipe to stop the emission of sparks and burning fragments.

Stream Course: The area along a stream with riparian vegetation and other riparian characteristics.

Stream courses are noted on the project maps. They typically require special treatment, which may include alteration to the tree cutting, slash treatment, vehicle travel or fueling of saws. The individual task orders will specify special treatments.

Special Protection Area: A zone that has special characteristics such as riparian vegetation, wildlife calving areas, etc. Special protection areas are noted on the project maps and they may require special treatment such as an alteration to the tree cutting, slash treatment, vehicle travel or fueling of saws.

Refer to the Silvicultural Summary Prescription for required practices.

Spike: Sharp pointed limbs of living or dead vegetation.

Standard Fire Behavior Fuel Models: The new set of standard fire behavior fuel models for use with Rothermel’s surface fire spread model and the relationship of the new set to the original set of 13 fire behavior fuel models. As described by, “Scott, Joe H.; Burgan, Robert E. 2005. Standard fire behavior fuel models: a comprehensive set for use with Rothermel’s surface fire spread model. Gen. Tech.

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Surface Fuels: Loose litter on the soil surface, normally consisting of fallen leaves or needles, twigs, bark, cones, and small branches that have not yet decayed; also grasses, forbs, low and medium shrubs, tree seedlings, heavier branchwood, downed logs, and stumps interspersed with or partially replacing the litter.

Surplus Vegetation: Includes vegetation (conifers and hardwoods) greater than 1 foot tall and up to 12 inches DBH; western juniper trees greater than 1 foot tall and up to 16 inches DBH; and shrubs less than 12 inches diameter at ground level; when not selected as leave trees, reserved, or needed to meet spacing requirements.

Tons/Acre: Unit of measurement of fuel.

Unsatisfactory Tree: Cutting of a tree that fails to meet contract standards includes but is not limited to:

(1) Cutting the wrong tree, failing to cut a correct tree, failure to completely sever a live limb, etc.

(2) Failure to prune a tree or pruning that is not in contract.

(3) Failure to girdle a tree that meets the specifications is also an unsatisfactory tree.

Unsatisfactory trees are considered a deficiency or discrepancy in contract inspection.

Walk-In Areas: Units indicated as ‘walk-in’ units will be further than ¼ mile from an accessible road.

Water Bar: A shallow channel or raised barrier, e.g. a ridge packed earth or a thin pole laid diagonally across the surface of a road or trail so as to lead off water, particularly storm water. (Frequently installed on fire lines on steep slopes to prevent erosion.

Wildland Fuel: Combustible material that can be consumed by fire which includes naturally occurring live and dead vegetation, such as grass, leaves, ground litter, plants, shrubs and trees, and excessive buildups of these materials resulting from resource management and other land use activities, as well as from natural plant growth and succession.

Wildland/Urban Interface: The line, area, or zone where structures and other human development meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland or vegetative fuels. Often incorrectly referred to as the "inter-zone" or "urban/wildland interface."

Windthrow: See blow down.

Wildlife Trees: Standing dead or live trees left for nesting, feeding, perching and shelter for birds and mammals. Trees may be marked with paint and/or designated with a tag stating it is a wildlife tree or as identified by the COR.

Contractor’s Quality Control For each completed unit, the Contractor’s quality control inspection percentage for tree thinning, pruning, girdling, and slash treatments will be compared to the Government’s assessment results. If the results differ by 5 percent or less, the Contractor’s inspection system will be considered acceptable.

The Contractor’s quality percentage may be used as the basis for payment. When the results differ by more than 5 percent, the Government’s inspection percentage will be used as the basis for payment.

Note that payment for thinning quality will only be made when Category C deficiencies are below the maximum levels described in Inspection and Acceptance Section.

Work Statement

Performance Standard Government Method of Assessment

Incentive/ Deduction

Thinning

Pruning

Girdling

Control Line/ Unit Preparation

Quality meets or exceeds performance standard of 90% when considering Satisfactory selected leave trees, and Category A and Category B deficiencies as described in the Inspection Procedure.

AND

The number of Category C deficiencies do not exceed the maximum stated acceptance and rework.

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