Attachment B.pdf
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- Attached to
- Bud Aspen GNA
- Solicitation number
- 191364
- Issued by
- Carbon County, Wyoming
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This document is an Attachment B to a state or local government contract opportunity, which outlines the contractor responsibilities for aspen enhancement services. The contractor shall complete the following tasks: hand cut and pile conifer trees and dead trees between 1-8" DBH, cut and fell conifer and aspen trees between 8.1-14" DBH, girdle conifer and aspen trees greater than 14" DBH, keep access roads and trails clear, grass seed any exposed soil, and follow specific fire prevention and suppression requirements. The contractor must provide skilled labor, equipment, and materials necessary to perform the work in compliance with the contract. No motorized vehicles or heavy machinery are allowed in the units, and no herbicides may be used. The contractor must provide 2 days' notice prior to beginning work and meet with the agency representative before starting. The contract has specific timing restrictions prohibiting work from April 1 to August 30 in certain areas.
The document does not provide information on pricing terms, set asides, incumbents, funding sources, or other financial details. It focuses solely on the technical requirements and responsibilities of the contractor for the aspen enhancement services.
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Attachment B
ATTACHMENT B
CONTRACTOR RESPONSIBILITIES - The Contractor shall perform aspen enhancement services in accordance with the following:
1. The Contractor shall complete the following prescription:
A. All live conifer trees and dead trees with a one inch to eight inch (1-8”) Diameter at
Breast Height (DBH) will be hand cut and piled. Piles shall be a maximum size of six feet tall by six feet wide by six feet long (6’ x 6’ x 6’). Piles shall be constructed in a way that is compact and free of dirt to facilitate burning.
B. All live conifer trees and dead trees with an eight point one to fourteen inch (8.1-
14”) DBH will be cut and felled. Trees shall be cut completely free from the stump.
Stems shall be bucked into lengths shorter than twelve feet (12’). Slash will be lopped and scattered within the units.
C. All live aspen trees with a ten point one to fourteen inch (10.1-14”) DBH will be cut and felled. Tree shall be cut completely free from the stump. Stems shall be bucked into lengths shorter than twelve feet (12’). Slash will be lopped and scattered within the units.
D. All live conifer and live aspen trees with a DBH greater than fourteen inches (14”) will be left standing but killed with girdling. Girdling consists of cutting two parallel deep rings completely around the circumference of the tree. Parallel cuts would be approximately six inches (6”) apart and must go completely through the bark and at the least one half-inch (.5”) into the sapwood. Girdling cuts will be placed at a height of three feet (3’) to five feet (5’) from the ground.
2. The Contractor shall keep all access roads and trails adjacent to or within each unit clear of slash and open to travel when not working in the area. The Contractor shall promptly remove slash accumulation from open meadows and water courses.
3. No motorized vehicles, heavy equipment, wheeled or tracked logging machinery is allowed to enter any of the units in the Contract. All motorized vehicles, heavy equipment, wheeled or tracked logging machinery will remain within road right of ways.
4. The Contractor shall grass seed any exposed areas of raw soil that is caused by project work at a rate of 20 to 25 pounds of seed per acre. The following grass seed mixture must be followed.
Species Percent of Mix by
Weight
Big Bluegrass (Poa ampla) or Canby bluegrass (Poa canbyi). 4
Mountain bromegrass (Bromus marginatus) 40
Blue wildrye (Elymus glaucus) 33
Slender wheatgrass (Elymus trachycaulus) 23
Total- certified weed free 100
5. The Contractor shall not construct any piles within one hundred feet (100’) of mapped steams or wetlands.
6. Slash depth shall not exceed twenty-four inches (24”) and shall be a minimum of two inches (2”) throughout the project area.
7. Cut stumps as low to the ground as possible, and in no event higher than six inches (6”) on the high ground side.
8. In the timing restriction area, shown on the project area map with purple slashes, no operations shall occur from April 1 to August 30 unless there is prior written permission from the Forest
Service.
9. The Contractor shall furnish all skilled labor, experienced supervision, transportation, equipment, operating supplies, incidentals, and inspection services necessary to perform work in compliance with the Contract.
10. All transportation, equipment, operating supplies, and personnel shall arrive on site clean and free of vegetative debris or mud to reduce the introduction and spread of noxious/invasive weed species.
11. No herbicides shall be used for this work.
12. The Contractor shall be responsible for signing work area in both directions of travel prior to entering work zone on publicly accessible USFS land (Example: MEN AT WORK).
13. The Contractor must provide a notification to the Agency two days prior to beginning work.
The Contractor will be required to meet with the Agency representative before starting project work.
14. Fire: The Contractor Shall:
A. The Contractor, its agents, or employees, shall exercise all possible precautions to prevent wildfire and shall assist in the suppression of any fire that is on, or threatening the property of, the project area. During the fire season, the Contractor shall have the following firefighting tools located on the sale site:
(i) A combination of shovels, Mcleod’s and Pulaski’s sufficient to equip each person on the treatment crew
(ii) A minimum of one back-pack pump per every five (5) people on the treatment crew
(iii) A minimum of two (2) five-pound (5 lb.) fire extinguishers available at fueling locations
(iv) All motorized equipment will be equipped with an operational spark arrester and a charged fire extinguisher.
13. Fire Criteria.
The Contractor shall use caution when working in the forests, have spark arrestors on equipment, have fire suppression tools available, and take immediate action to extinguish any fires that occur in the vicinity.
The Contractor shall have within a three (3) minute round-trip of each saw: One (1) round pointed #0 to #2 long handled shovel with serviceable handle and one (1) 6BC rated fire extinguisher.
The indicator for the required level of protection and or operations shall be the National Fire
Danger rating system.
Fire Danger Rating Operational Requirement
Low through High Normal operations and administration as specified in the Contract.
Very High In addition to normal requirements, the Contractor will be required to:
A. Fuel chainsaws and equipment on an area that has been cleared of all vegetation for a radius of three feet (3’) beyond the reach of the equipment. (Landings and roads will meet this requirement).
B. Have a minimum of a ten (10) pound BC rated fire extinguisher at the fueling site and any maintenance sites.
C. Have fire hand tools on site for each employee on site.
Extreme In addition to the “Normal” and “Very High” requirements, the
Contractor will be required to:
A. Operate only between the hours of 5:00 PM and 10:00 AM.
B. Remain in the area for one (1) hour following the shutdown of harvesting and cutting to insure there is no smoke in the area and that no fires have ignited.
Red Flag Alert Operations shall cease.
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