A04_PR0040306727_Statement_of_Work.docx

STATEMENT OF WORK FORMAT (2016 11 21)

Mountain Home Air Force Base Saylor Creek Range Fuel Breaks

1. General

a. The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Mid-Columbia NWR Complex (64 Maple Street, Burbank, WA 99323) has a requirement to create fuel breaks along the road accessing Saylor Creek Range at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Mountain Home, ID.

b. Purpose/ End Application: The purpose of this work is to create self-sustaining vegetative fuel breaks to minimize the size and impacts of wildfires and provide aid to fire suppression activities, thereby protecting existing and restored shrub-steppe communities.

c. Contractor Qualifications: The contractor must have the equipment, expertise and necessary licenses to carry-out site preparation, pesticide applications and seeding activities, and experience working on DoD Lands.

2. Place of Performance and Period of Performance:

a. Mountain Home Air Force Base, Saylor Creek Range, Mountain Home, ID 83648

b. Project will be completed between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017

3. Scope

a. The contractor will create vegetative fuel breaks along 11.3mi of county road adjacent to Saylor Creek Range. These 550'wide fuel breaks will consist of non-native, fire-resistant plant species and buffers of native perennial grasses to minimize the spread of the non-native species into adjacent vegetation communities. The contractor will be responsible for site preparation including mowing, harrowing and chemical treatment of existing vegetation. Follow-up herbicide applications and additional site preparation will be done the second year after mowing. Broadcast and drill seeding of self-sustaining fire-resistant vegetation will be done after all site preparation and herbicide applications. The project will follow the timeline and activities below:

i. Herbicide Application - Summer 2017 (32-9602/ac glyphosate / 12oz/ac BroncMax or equiv./ 4oz/ac Dicamba and l oz./ac R-11 or equiv.)

ii. Herbicide Application - Fall 2017 (16oz/ac glyphosate / 10oz/ac BroncMax or equiv./ 3oz/ac Dicamba and 1oz/ac R- 11 or equiv.)

iii. Broadcast Seeding of Fuel Break - Fall 2017 Fuel Breaks: 41bs/ac "Immigrant Forage Kochia and 0.251bs/ac "lmnaha" Sand Dropseed

iv. Culti-packing of Broadcast Strips - Fall 2017

v. Drill Seeding Buffer Strips - Fall Year, Buffer Strips: 0.7lbs/ac "Mountain Home" Sandberg's Bluegrass, 51bs/ac "Sheepshead" Bluebunch Wheatgrass and 1.7lbs/ac "Rattlesnake" Bottlebrush Squirreltail

vi. Harrowing- Fall 2017

4. Deliverables and/or Delivery Schedule: (for extended list a bid schedule and/or use of line item detail on the PR is recommended)

a. The contractor will communicate activity schedules with USFWS and complete fuel breaks by December 2017.

b. The contractor will provide copies of herbicide application records.

5. Government-Furnished Equipment and Government-Furnished Information

a. The USFWS Mid-Columbia NWR Complex will provide any maps necessary for completion and assist with coordination with military activities and equipment storage/staging areas.

6. Evaluation and Acceptance

a. The contractor’s job performance will be evaluated and Government acceptance is contingent upon the successful creation of fire-resistant, vegetative fuel breaks along the road to Saylor Creek Range, Mountain Home Air Force Base. The project will be considered successful if, seeded forage kochia reaches a density of 4 plants/m2 and the majority of plants are producing seed. Seeded species will have enough below and above ground biomass to withstand livestock use.

7. Quality Control/Quality Assurance:

a. Measures for assessing quality control and acceptance will be done by the technical Coordinator and include: reviews of equipment used, application methods and the effectiveness of site preparation treatments and seeding outcomes.

8. Technical Coordinator:

a. Technical Coordinator: James Rebholz, Biologist, Land Management and Research Demonstration Program, Mid-Columbia NWRC, 64 Maple Street, Burbank, WA 99323; 509-528- 4195; james_rebholz@fws.gov