B26852 revised Scope of work Spring 2022 Tree Seedling Planting.pdf

ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

ILLINOIS DIVISION OF FOREST RESOURCES

Reforestation Areas

Region 3 / Vermilion County Kickapoo St Rec Area 37 ac. New Tree Planting 2022 Region 2 / Kankakee County Kankakee River State Park 21 ac. New Tree Planting 2022 Region 2 / Will County Boathouse Rd 3 ac. Seedling Replant 2022 Region 2 / Lake County Volo State Park 7 ac. Seedling Replant 2022 Region 2 / McHenry County Moraine Hills State Park 4 ac. Seedling Replant 2022

2022 IDNR Reforestation Scope of Work:

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forest Resources (IDNR) seeks an experienced reforestation contractor (Contractor), having direct experience successfully planting hardwood reforestation seedlings on 15 acres or more in open fields on specified row spacings within the last 5 years and provide at least two references that verify that experience by providing owner’s name, valid phone number, mailing address and property legal description, address or GPS coordinates. Contractor shall also have no less than two tenured (1 year+) employees that hold a valid Illinois Department of Agriculture commercial pesticide applicators license which will be checked prior to work starting. Contractor must also be an experienced reforestation herbicide applicator having treated hardwood tree planting fields to control grasses and weeds from around live hardwood seedlings and provide at least one herbicide application reference to verify this experience on 15 acres or more within the last 5 years. Contractor should provide all experience documentation at time of bid. Contractor shall own or have available all equipment necessary for mechanized planting of seedlings such as tractor/s and pull behind tree seedling planter/s.

Contractor must pick-up 52,200 live, cold-dormant 1-0 tree seedlings stock (unless otherwise noted) from Mason County State Tree Nursery, transport, handle and store, according to IDNR Technical Specification 002; plant at density of 726 seedling trees per acre in rows 10 feet apart with seedlings spaced 6 feet part within those rows and in accordance to IDNR Technical Specification 001 in five separate counties and locations in Northern and Central Illinois as shown in the 4 maps provided between March 15, 2022 and May 15, 2022.

Contractor is to complete installation of all seedlings, with a two man or more crew, no later than May 15 2022 and post herbicide treatments no later than June 15 unless otherwise approved in writing by an IDNR Forester; district forester with contractor will determine whether herbicide treatments will be pre one or more weeks prior to planting or post planting prior to June 15, 2022;

District Forester contacts for each site will be provided after contract is awarded; contractor shall acquire District Forester signature upon planting and herbicide treatment completions; the planting of the seedlings may not be sub-contracted, and contractor will complete this scope of work in the following described sites;

Start date – no sooner than March 15th, 2022 and after winter frost has left soil

Kickapoo State Park (all three sites within ½ mile radius) 25 acre site (40.183499, -87.739437), has a present cover of millet and foxtail; area will be burned or mowed by state prior to planting;

7 acres site (40.185871, -87.740425), present cover is sorghum; area will be mowed and sprayed if necessary by state, prior to planting;

5 acres site (40.188245, -87.729719), present cover is millet and foxtail; area will be burned, mowed and or sprayed by state if necessary, prior to planting;

Start date – no sooner than April 1st, 2022 and after winter frost has left soil

Kankakee River State Park (all three sites within ½ mile radius) 3 acre site (41.162969,-87.937962); 5 acre site (41.160958,-879309380; and 13 acres site (41.160290,-87.920428), present cover for all is cool season grasses, forbs and a scattering of invasive shrubs; mowing will be completed by state prior to planting;

Boathouse Rd site - Replant - (15 miles from Kankakee River St Park) 3 acre site (41.336620,-88171767), very little present cover as area was treated this past summer and is previously farmed ground; area remains prepped for planting;

Start date – no sooner than April 22nd, 2022 and after winter frost has left soil

Volo State Park - Replant – 7 acre site (42.366320,-88.194697), present cover is cool and warm season grass and limited thistle;

site will be mowed or disked prior to planting; District Forester suggests use of a Pre-emergent grass herbicide like Oust or an equivalent sprayed in the rows at 36” bands.

Moraine Hills- Replant – (7 miles from Volo State Park) 4 acre site (42.316860, -88.245279), site will be mowed or disked prior to planting; District Forester suggests use of a Pre-emergent grass herbicide like Oust or an equivalent sprayed in the rows at 36” bands.

Contractor must supply all herbicide products, necessary additives and adjuncts to treat up to 72 tree planting acres; apply herbicide product or product mix in bands before, during or after successfully planting of the 52,200 seedlings; use herbicide products, application rates and timing recommended, agreed or approved in writing by an IDNR Forester to suppress and control annual weed and grass competition in 4-foot-wide continuous bands centered over each

10 foot tree row without injuring trees; wear appropriate Personal Protection Equipment when applying herbicide products or mixes; assure treatment is working and effective over 70% of each application row area across at least 90% of the all treated acres by June 15, 2022 unless otherwise approved in writing by an IDNR Forester; and use only licensed herbicide products, rates and timing according to the original product labels for the target of releasing planted, live or live dormant hardwood tree seedlings from grass and aggressive weeds present or expected.

In addition to following Technical Specifications 001 and 002 the contractor must mix well all the seedling species designated for each site, before planting any sections of the field or rows on that site, so that all species designated for the site occur randomly in each row planted and are present randomly on all portions of site overall as could be measured in a typical survival check or in a random 10th of an acre plot.

Contractor is to complete installation of all 52,500 seedlings by May 15th, 2022 and is to pick up the seedlings from Mason Nursery just prior to planting, and notify Mason Nursery one week in advance of seedling pickup by number of seedlings for each species, Site Name, and date/time of pickup, as per the following breakdown; The provided seedlings of the following species have been chosen, designated, and ordered specifically to be mixed and randomly placed within the following sites:

Kickapoo State Park Start date – no sooner than March 15th, 2022

Kickapoo Bottomland 25 Acre Site

Species Kickapoo bottomland 25 acres

Bald Cypress 1,000

Black Walnut 500

Bur Oak 1,000

Overcup Oak 3,500

Pecan 3,500

Pin Oak 3,500

Shumard Oak 3,000

Swamp White Oak 2,000

Total 18,000

Kickapoo Upland 7 Acre Site

Species Kickapoo Upland 7 acres

Black Oak 2-0 1,000

Black Walnut 300

Bur Oak 1,000

Pecan 500

Pin Oak 700

Red Oak 1,600

Total 5,100

Kickapoo “Additional” Upland 5 Acre Site

Species Kickapoo Additional Upland 5 acres

Black Oak 2-0 1,000

Black Walnut 200

Bur Oak 1,000

Pin Oak 500

Red Oak 1,000

Total 3,700

Kankakee River State Park Start date – no sooner than April 1st, 2022

Kankakee River 21 Acre Site

Species Kankakee River 21 acres

Black Oak 2-0 1,000

Black Walnut 2,000

Bur Oak 3,000

Overcup Oak 400

Pecan 600

Red Oak 2,400

Shumard Oak 1,000

Swamp White Oak 3,000

White Oak 2,000

Total 15,400

Boathouse Rd site - Replant - Start date – no sooner than April 1st, 2022

Boathouse Rd 3 Acre Site

Species Boathouse 3 acre Replant

Overcup Oak 400

Pecan 400

Pin Oak 400

Red Oak 200

Shumard Oak 400

Swamp White Oak 400

Total 2,200

Volo State Park - Replant – Start date – no sooner than April 22nd, 2022

Volo 7 acre site

Species Volo 7 acres

Black Walnut 800

Bur Oak 900

Pecan 800

Red Oak 900

Shumard Oak 800

White Oak 800

Total 5,000

Moraine Hills- Replant – Start date – no sooner than April 22nd, 2022

Moraine Hills 4 acre site

Species Morain Hills 4 acres Replant

Black Walnut 500

Bur Oak 500

Pecan 400

Red Oak 500

Shumard Oak 400

White Oak 500

Total 2800

The contractor is responsible for having the water necessary to protect the seedlings when and if water is necessary. No well heads, spigots or water supply exists in the fields specified. The IDNR

Forester will make available the nearest water source that the state IDNR has available to them or controls if contractor has and uses their own containers and means to transport water containers in and out of the work sites.

The contractor must follow or meet standards set forth in the two technical specifications attached to this procurement opportunity in handling and transporting live, cold-dormant seedling stock and the transplanting/planting of that stock. The contractor will be required to sign and operate within the bounds of a signed state contract containing the information and documents within this procurement opportunity as well as ingress and egress standards, general rules for working on state land, operating and equipment protocols, requirements for having appropriate first-aid, emergency supplies, PPEs such as first aid kits, spill kits, protective wear and other standard contracting obligations.

The planted stock must have a final survival rate of 80% for each overall site. The weed control and suppression must be at least 70% effective over 90% of each field by June 15. The completion of the each of the five project areas will be approved in writing by June 24, 2022 by the oversight DNR District Forester of that project area.

The contractor is responsible to pick-up and transport tree seedling stock from the Mason State Tree

Nursery in Mason County, Illinois to each site and care for seedling stock until stock is successfully planted in the ground. The live, cold-dormant stock will be packaged by species in bundles of 100.

The designated seedlings for each of the sites will be pulled and organized by site name by the

Nursery upon notification by the contractor to schedule a pick up date. Upon notifying Mason

Nursery for seedling pick up the Contractor shall confirm the planting site name/s and acres, the seedling species and count, for each order to be picked up. The seedling order should be confirmed to be correct by contractor at the time of pick up and before leaving Mason Nursery.

The IDNR Division of Forest Resources must be specifically invoiced for each individual planting sites by the titles given to each of the five areas in this Scope of Work for tree planting work and the herbicide application promptly after the work is completed and no later than June 30, 2022. All invoice billings for this contract shall be electronically mailed to Michael Brunk at michael.brunk@illinois.gov.

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