S-10-0558 Attachment 3 Pre-Bid Tour Minutes.docx

Timber Marking Southwestern Region Apache – Sitgreaves National Forest

Pre-bid Tour Minutes 23 July 2010 1300 hrs

Supervisor’s Office Springerville Arizona

Forest Service:

James Pitts Jerry Drury

Contractors

Joel Fyock of Chestnut Ridge Forestry Mountain_Man575@yahoo.com Business Phone: 575-430-9188

Daniel Weaver PO Box 702, Springerville, Arizona dweaver65@hotmail.com Business Phone: 928-333-2272 or Cell: 928-205-3092

Q& A Pre-Bid Tour:

1. Are the marking prescriptions and the desired outcome the same? Yes, the marking prescription describes the desired out come.

2. Are there targets for wood products such as saw logs, pulp or biomass? No, any thing removed is a by-product of our desired condition and leave tree selection.

3. Where are the locations that marking will occur, are there maps? We have ideas of locations but priorities have not been set yet.

4. Will the mark have to be hidden along private / main roads? That will depend on each Ranger District and their specific direction. It will be identified by each project.

5. How will marks be placed on each tree? A band of paint around the entire bole of the tree and a butt mark.

6. Will there be multiple award or single award on this contract? Is each project (timber Sale) a task order? Or a continuation of acres to be marked from one project to another till the funds are spent. This will be a single award contract. No task orders will be issued.