f.final_Bull_II_Call_Order.pdf

CALL ORDER NO. ___________

IF THIS ORDER IS GREATER THAN $2,500.00, IT IS

NOT VALID UNTIL SIGNED BY THE CONTRACTING OFFICER

BPA No. 1240BE22A______ Project Name:

Bull II Thin and Pile 2022 County:

Grant/Wheeler

Contractor: Issuing and Billing Office:

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest P.O. Box 909 Baker City, OR 97814

Item No.

Subitem No.

Description Quantity

Order Unit

Unit Price Amount

1 THINNING

optional 1.1 Bull 013 49 Acre $ $ optional 1.2 Bull 015 37 Acre $ $

1.3 Bull 016 109 Acre $ $

1.4 Bull 028 14 Acre $ $

1.5 Bull 029 56 Acre $ $

1.6 Bull 030 74 Acre $ $

1.7 Bull 031 19 Acre $ $

1.8 Bull 032 34 Acre $ $

1.9 Bull 035 39 Acre $ $

1.10 Bull 036 23 Acre $ $

1.11 Bull 039 30 Acre $ $

1.12 Bull 040 44 Acre $ $

optional 1.13 Bull 041 6 Acre $ $

1.14 Bull 043 59 Acre $ $

Sub-Total 593 Acre XXXXXX $

2 HAND PILING

2.1 Bull 028 14 Acre $ $

2.2 Bull 031 19 Acre $ $

2.3 Bull 032 34 Acre $ $

2.4 Bull 036 23 Acre $ $

2.5 Bull 039 30 Acre $ $

2.6 Bull 040 44 Acre $ $

2.7 Bull 043 59 Acre $ $

Sub-Total 223 Acre XXXXXX $

Required Delivery Date or Number of Calendar Days: Work is estimated to start 09/20/2022 and shall be completed by 12/15/2023. No work shall be performed between 08/01/2023 – 09/10/2023 due to fire danger and personnel capacity.

Total Price: $

Contractor: (Name and Signature)

Requested By: (Name and Signature)

COR KRISTEN MARSHALL

Fund Authorization: (Name and Signature)

Line Officer See IAS Requisition Ordered By: (Name and Signature)

Andrea Pollock, Contracting Officer Order Date: Job Code:

Original to CO, CC to Contractor, B&F and COR

Location of Work

The project is located on the Umatilla National Forest, Heppner Ranger District. Units are located within Grant and Wheeler Counties. Treatment is a mixture of lop and scatter or thin and pile. Nearest community is Heppner, OR. with the units located approximately 30 miles to the southwest.

Bull Units: T 7S R 26E Sec 6, 7, 8, 17 and 18: T 7S R25E Sec 12 and 13. Fourteen units totaling 593 acres of which 223 will require handpiling. Primary access is via the 2007, 350, 035 roads.

Unit maps are provided for specific locations. Additional maps may be purchased at the Heppner Ranger District Office , 117 S Main Street, Heppner, OR 97836.

Accessibility: The units are generally accessed by open forest service roads, but require some hiking. Forest Service assumes no obligation to plow snow or do special maintenance to keep roads open. Spur roads into areas are not maintained and may be blocked by downfall or washouts. Some roads may be gated and require a special entry permit to enter, and motorized entry may not be allowed during certain periods of the year. Units may require the contractor to walk-in. Any non-motorized transportation may be used to reach the units.

2. Description of Work

All units proposed in this document will be precommercially thinned. Accomplishing the project shall be done by thinning and hand piling. Small diameter trees shall be thinned using chainsaws (trees to be cut will not be greater than 8 inches in diameter at breast height) to predetermined stocking levels within each stand. The created and existing surface fuels (8” and smaller at the large end) shall then be hand piled or lopped and scattered. Units that are designated as thin and pile will have slash piled whenever material exists in a 25 foot diameter circle to create a pile to the minimum specifications.

ALL western juniper 10” and less in diameter will be cut down regardless of spacing.

All conifers 8” dbh and less within 25 feet of the bole of any trees greater than 20 inches dbh shall be cut, and slash piled outside of the drip line of remaining trees.

Unit boundaries are designated with orange. Orange boundary tags have also been affixed to trees along the perimeter.

Thinning

The technical specifications for pre-commercial thinning is based on the overall composition and condition of the stand, and is intended to be a guideline for achieving a high quality final product in a professional manner. Contractor is expected to use silvicultural knowledge to identify and adjust to variations within the stand. See the detailed unit information sheet for spacing, tree species preference list, and slash treatments. Also refer to the detail unit information sheet for additional information such as riparian buffers, wildlife exclusion patches, and walk in units.

1. ALL western juniper, regardless of spacing, up to a diameter of 10” will be cut down, unless within 25 feet of the stream bank.

2. Contractor may leave the following trees and disregard them for spacing/target TPA purposes.

A. Live conifer trees that are shorter than 6 inches in height, unless otherwise specified.

B. Trees exhibiting visible wildlife dens or nesting use. Should an active hawk, eagle, or pileated woodpecker nest be located, work shall be discontinued within 500 feet of the tree until the CO has been notified and has authorized resumption of work.

C. Leave all shrubs and non-coniferous tree species, except when removal is necessary to access a coniferous tree to be removed.

D. Leave all dead trees.

E. Leave any tree which is closer than its height to a rock outcrop.

F. Leave all trees with fencing attached.

G. Leave all trees within 50 feet of stream banks H. Leave all conifers that are larger than 8” DBH and include undamaged trees in these categories for spacing/density purposes (damaged trees shall not be included for spacing/density purposes).

3. Contractor shall select additional leave trees from those live conifers of a minimum tree height (6”), up to the maximum cut 8” DBH, to achieve a desired average spacing/target trees per acre as specified on the Detailed Unit Information Sheet.

A. Leave trees shall be the healthiest, most vigorous, and best-formed trees of the preferred species in the stand, as evidenced by the tallest height, largest crowns and crown ratios, straightest stems, and the least amount of damage or disease.

B. The leave tree crown spacing is targeted to select the healthiest and most vigorous trees and may be varied up to 50 percent (wider or tighter) to leave the most desirable trees. It is more important to leave the best trees, rather than have uniform spacing. Averaged over the stand, leave tree average spacing/target TPA shall not be increased or decreased from what is specified in the detailed unit information sheet.

C. Leave trees shall be selected within the order of species preference listed in the Detailed Unit Information Sheet.

This order of preference only applies if the trees are free of damage, insects or disease. In most cases tree vigor will help you determine which trees will best occupy the site.

D. Where undamaged trees are not available, select leave trees with the least amount of damage. The more extensive the damage, the less satisfactory the tree is as a leave tree. A tree shall not be left as a leave tree if the amount of damage is to the extent that the tree will not reach maturity or produce a merchantable product. In some cases small areas will be void of any leave trees due to the presence of serious disease or damage. The contractor is responsible for recognizing these problems and being able to select the best leave trees.

1) Indicators of desireable leave trees are:

-Straight stem -Small branch diameter -Good coloration -Well-formed crown -Branches horizontal or slightly angled to bole -Free of insect and disease damage and/or symptoms -Vigorous annual terminal growth* -Crown ratio > 50%

*These indicators as well as overall tree vigor are important criteria for leave tree selection. The most prominent indicator for vigor is annual terminal growth for the past 1 to 5 years.

2) Indicators of undesirable trees are:

-Poor crown form -Crook or sweep in bole -Dead or broken tops -Multiple tops -Poor coloration -Large branch diameter -Insect and disease -Branches more than 45 degrees from horizontal -Physical or mechanical damage -Suppressed -Poor annual growth -Yellowing crown (relative to trees of same species) -Insects (defoliation, dead/short leaders, bark beatle frass) -Diseases (mistletoe, brooms, gall rust, bole cankers) -Physical or mechanical damages (bole scars, lean) -Crown ratio <40% -Tree is considered a ladder fuel

*These indicators shall determine trees to be cut, the presence of indicators of undesireable trees will be acceptable for a particular leave tree only if it will not keep the tree from reaching maturity or producing a merchantable product.

E. Species preference compensates somewhat for minor differences in size or quality. For example, a smaller but otherwise equal quality ponderosa pine which is 2/3 the height of a grand fir should be left rather than the grand fir.

A western larch with minor bole damage would be preferred leave tree over an undamaged grand fir.

F. Contractor shall exercise extreme care to prevent damage to leave trees. If the best leave tree is accidently cut or damaged, Contractor shall leave a substitute tree. Contractor shall select as the substitute tree, the most healthy, vigorous, and largest tree of a preferred species available within 8 feet of the cut or damaged tree. Substitution will only be an acceptable remedy if encountered infrequently. If frequent, the inspection will indicate deficient trees.

G. Contractor shall exercise extreme care to prevent damage to all physical improvements (fences, telephone lines, established land corners, buildings, ditches, etc.) in the contract area. Contractor shall be liable for damage to physical improvements and shall make immediate repairs to damaged physical improvements.

Slash Treatment

Detailed Unit Information Sheet will contain specific slash treatment(s) required for each unit and involves varying levels of lop and scatter and pull back, while other units will require hand piling of slash.

1. The Contractor shall not start thinning a new unit until the slash treatment on the previously thinned unit is completed.

2. Slash depths shall be 18” or less.

3. All created slash shall be limbed and bucked to a maximum length of 8’.

4. Trees shall be completely severed from the stump or severed below the lowest live limb, except when prevented by obstacles (e.g. rocks, boulders).

5. Stump height shall not exceed the maximum listed on the Detailed Unit Information Sheet or 4 inches above obstacles.

6. Thinning slash shall be pulled back from the following areas and is considered part of the slash treatment:

A. Roads – no slash shall be left within 5 feet of the outside edge of the road shoulders. In areas with cut and fill construction, this distance shall be measured from 5 feet beyond the top of the bank to 5 feet beyond the point where the shoulder meets the fill slope. All open and closed roads shall be kept free of thinning slash unless a closed road has trees greater than 4 feet tall growing in the roadbed.

B. Trails - no slash shall be left on established game trails.

C. Cultural Resource Sites – the Contractor shall notify the Contracting Officer of any suspected cultural resource sites prior to working the area. If a cultural resouce site is found, the Contractor shall discontinue work in the general area until the Contracting Officer has been notified.

D. Improvements – no slash shall be left within 15 feet of any physical improvement.

E. Fence Lines – no slash shall be left within 15 feet of any fence line.

F. Private Lands – slash felled on private land will be pulled back into the unit.

G. Large Trees – all conifers 8 inches and less in dbh within 25 feet of the bole of any trees greater than 20 inches dbh shall be cut and the slash pulled back outside the drip line.

Handpiles will be completed as described in the contract. Handpiling will be considered unacceptable if any of the following conditions are found:

1. Remaining un-piled slash is less than 40 feet from the nearest pile or consists of more slash than is necessary to make its own pile.

2. Piles are less than 10 feet apart.

3. Piles are located on or against stumps, logs, or rocks larger than 2 foot in diameter.

4. Piles are placed closer than 10 feet from the bole of any standing tree or snag (20 dbh or less).

5. Piles are placed closer than 25 feet away from the bole of trees 20 inch dbh or greater

6. Piles are placed on open roads or trails.

7. Piles are placed within 10 feet of ditches or channel bottoms.

8. Piles are placed within 15 feet of treatment unit boundary or any improvement such as road signs, fences, etc.

9. Piles are placed within 25 feet of any stream bank.

10. Piles are larger than 6 feet tall, 8 feet wide, and 8 feet long, or smaller than 4 feet tall, 4 feet wide, and 4 feet wide.

11. Piles do not contain a core of kindling consisting of at least one cubic foot woody matierial not larger than 1-inch diameter as part of the bottom pile layer.

12. All piled material is not horizontal and aligned parallel together tightly. Trimming of material may be required to achieve a compact, stable pile.

13. Waterproof material is not placed in pile not less than 3 feet from pile bottom and/or insufficient cuttings are not placed on top to secure waterproof material.

14. Materials treated protrude more than 1 foot beyond the piles general contour. If/when this occurs, piled shall be trimmed so protruding material is less than one foot beyond piles general contour.

Exclusions

Detailed Unit Information Sheet will contain specific unit information regarding exclusion requirements. There are 2 types of exclusions: wildlife and riparian.

Detailed Unit Information Sheet will contain specific unit information regarding exclusion requirements. There are 2 types of exclusions: wildlife and riparian. Below are the guidelings for each exclusion.

1. Wildlife A. Refer to the Detailed Unit Information Sheet to see which units require wildlife exclusions.

B. Contractor shall flag the wildlife exclusions with yellow flagging.

C. The Contractor shall determine the location of the wildlife exclusions.

- No work is required to be done by the contractor in the wildife exclusions

- Minimum exclusion size is one quarter acre (100’ x 100’)

- Maximum exclusion size is one acre (200’ x 200’)

- In some cases COR may determing the need to leave wildlife exclusions larger than one acre

D. Areas recommended for wildlife exclusions are as follows:

- Rock out crops or cliff bands.

- Areas with dens, nests, wallows, springs, game trails, or beds.

- Areas with structure (for example, multi storied, large number of snags, or trees greater than 9” DBH, etc.)

2. Riparian

A. Refer to the Detailed Unit Information Sheet to see which units require riparian exclusions and their treatments, if additional riparian areas are found they shall be treated in the same manner.

B. All stream channels will retain existing shade by including a “no cut” buffer extending to 50’ on both sides of the stream banks.

C. Springs require a 25 foot no cut buffer around the edge.

Post Award Conference (AGAR 452.215-73) (Nov. 1996)

A post award conference with the successful offeror may be required. It will be scheduled and held as soon as the contractor, CO and COR are available to meet after the date of task order award. The conference will be held at a mutually agreed upon location.

Safety

Contractor shall provide a written, job-specific safety plan for the inherently hazardous conditions that exist during operations.

Contractor’s safety plan shall identify and describe hazardous conditions and specific actions to reduce these hazards. This plan shall be provided to the Contracting Officer (CO) at the post award conference. Work shall not commence on this project if the Contractor fails to provide the CO with an acceptable safety plan.

FAR Clause 52.217-7 Option for Increased Quantity—Separately Priced Line Item (MAR 1989)

The government may require the delivery of the numbered line item, identified in the schedule as an option item, in the quantity and at the price stated in the schedule. The contracting officer may exercise the option by written notice to the contractor at any time within the 90 days of the effective date of the Notice to Proceed. Delivery of added items shall continue at the same rate that like items are called for under the contract, unless the parties otherwise agree.

52.217-5 Evaluation of Options. (JULY 1990)

Except when it is determined in accordance with FAR 17.206(b) not to be in the Government’s best interests, the Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by adding the total price for all options to the total price for the basic requirement.

Evaluation of options will not obligate the Government to exercise the option(s).

Detailed Unit Information Data Sheet:

Heppner Ranger District, Umatilla NF

Unit Acres Average Spacing

Max

DBH

cut limit

Wildlife Patch

No/Yes

# of Streams/ Stream Class

Walk In Distance >1/4 mile

Flagging

THINNING

1.1 Bull 013 49 20x20 8” No 1 Class IV No Orange

1.2 Bull 015 37 20x20 8” No 1 Class IV No Orange

1.3 Bull 016 109 20x20 8” Yes (3) N Yes Orange

1.4 Bull 028 14 20x20 8” No 1 Class III

1 Class IV No Orange

1.5 Bull 029 56 20x20 8” No 1 Class III

1 Class IV No Orange

1.6 Bull 030 74 20x20 8” Yes (2) No No Orange

1.7 Bull 031 19 20x20 8” No No No Orange

1.8 Bull 032 34 20x20 8” No 2 Class IV No Orange

1.9 Bull 035 39 20x20 8” No 1 Class III

2 Class IV No Orange

1.10 Bull 036 23 20x20 8” No 1 Class III

1 Class IV No Orange

1.11 Bull 039 30 20x20 8” No 1 Class IV No Orange

1.13 Bull 040 44 20x20 8” No 2 Class IV No Orange

1.14 Bull 041 6 20x20 8” No No No Orange

1.15 Bull 043 59 20x20 8” No 1 Class IV Yes Orange

Total 593

HAND PILING

2.1 Bull 028 14 1 Class III

1 Class IV No

2.2 Bull 031 19 No No

2.3 Bull 032 34 2 Class IV No

2.4 Bull 036 23 1 Class III

1 Class IV No

2.5 Bull 039 30 1 Class IV No

2.6 Bull 040 44 2 Class IV No

2.7 Bull 043 59 1 Class IV No

Total 229

Detailed Unit Information Data Sheet

Bull II Thin and Pile 2022

Contractor is advised to inspect units before bidding. Difficulty of these units varies from easy to difficult.

**In consideration of recreational use at Bull Prairie, do not operate chainsaws within 1 mile of the campground between the hours of 2000-0800 from 05/01 through 10/31.**

General Thinning Requirements

• Select leave trees which have the tallest height, largest crown, and straightest stems and are free of damage or disease

• ALL western juniper, 10” in diameter or less and regardless of spacing, will be cut down in all treatment units.

• Size of removed trees will not be greater than 8” diameter at breast height (dbh) for all other species.

• All trees less than 8” dbh within 25 feet of the bole of any trees greater than 20” dbh shall be cut and slash pulled back outside of the drip line.

• No hardwoods shall be cut. No Pacific Yew shall be cut.

• Leave all trees with fencing attached.

• Achieve average spacing of twenty (20) by twenty (20) feet. Though spacing may vary between 18x18 and 22x22 to select desirable trees. Spacing may be varied up to fifty (50) percent to select the most desirable tree. However, spacing control, using the original guides, shall be maintained whenever possible.

• If no healthy undamaged tree exists at the required spacing interval, leave a tree relatively free of damage, regardless of species. Exception: Leave no mistletoe infected trees or juniper.

• Leave tree species preference listed below from most to least preferred. Species preference may vary by unit and COR will provide specific species selection method direction if needed.

1. Western larch 3. Douglas fire 5. Engelmann spruce

2. Ponderosa pine 4. Grand fir 6. Lodgepole pine

• Trees less than 6 inches in height may be left

• Stump height shall not exceed 6 inches.

• Trees exceeding twenty four (24) inches in height shall be severed below the lowest live limb, except when prevented by natural obstacles; in which case, any live limbs below the cutting point shall be removed. Trees shall be completely severed from the stump.

• Wildlife exclusions will be created and flagged by the contractor and approved by the COR. In general, these will be “no cut” patches varying from ½ to 1 acre in size.

• Streams (see maps):

o Class III-IV streams: No thinning will occur within 50’ of stream channel. . *Exception 25’ for juniper trees

• Contractor inspection forms need to include plot locations and results, wildlife and stream exclusion locations, and any other pertinent information. Completed inspection forms must be available to the COR before final government inspection of each unit.

Slash requirements:

• Slash treatment will be completed on each unit as it is thinned. Contractor shall not be allowed to start thinning a new unit until slash treatment on unit just thinned is completed.

• Pull and/or pile slash, duff, and other flammable material away from the base and outside the dripline of large diameter trees (≥21 inches dbh) and large snags (≥20 inches dbh). Piles should be placed at distances greater than 25 feet away from the boles of trees 20 inches or greater.

• All created slash shall be limbed and bucked to a maximum length of 8’.

• Slash treatment for units that require lop and scatter shall not have slash deeper than 18”.

• In units designated to be piled, create piles when enough slash is located within a 25’ diameter to meet minimum pile size standard, otherwise follow requirements for lop and scatter.

• Piles should be no smaller than 4 feet tall x 4 feet x 4 feet and no larger than 6 feet tall x 8 feet x 8 feet

• All piled material is to be covered sufficiently to shelter fine fuels enough to be ignitable with snow on the piles. The cover material shall be placed in the top ¼ portion of the pile and covered with enough slash to hold it firmly in place.

• Piles should be at least 15 feet away from any improvements such as fence lines or roads.

• No piling within 25’ of any mapped stream channel (all classes) Stream buffer measurements are responsibility of contractor.

• Piled material shall be aligned horizontally and tightly together. Material should not protrude greater than 1 foot beyond pile’s general contour.

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