Sandstone West RFP Attchament B.pdf

ATTACHMENT B

CONTRACTOR RESPONSIBILITIES

1. In mechanical treatment units, Units 1 and 2 the Contractor shall implement the following:

A. Cut all live and dead conifers and dead aspen over seven inches (7”) in DBH.

B. Conifers with a minimum DBH of seven inches (7”) meeting merchantability standards are to be skid and processed and decked at a designated landing.

i) Merchantability standards are as follows:

a. A minimum log length of eight feet (8’),

b. A minimum top-end diameter of six-inches (6”) inside bark, and

c. Less than sixty-six percent (66%) seen and unseen defect.

C. Conifers with a DBH smaller than seven inches (7”) and dead aspen over seven inches (7”) are to be placed in slash piles following the guidelines in Provision 2 “Slash Disposal”.

E. Live and dead aspen smaller than seven inches (7”) in DBH may be cut to facilitate operations, but are not targeted for removal.

F. Contractor shall take due care to not damage leave tree islands marked within the unit boundaries.

2. Slash Disposal:

A. Slash shall be constructed into slash piles.

B. Slash piles shall be a minimum of fifteen feet in height by fifty feet in width by fifty feet in length (15’x 50’x50’). Maximum windrow dimensions shall be twenty feet in height by eighty feet in width by five hundred feet in length (20’x 80’x 500’).

C. Slash piles shall be generally perpendicular to the slope.

D. Slash piles shall be compacted, free of dirt and voided air spaces, and have a mixture of small and large diameter material.

E. Minimum distance for slash piles placement is as follows:

i) Four hundred fifty feet (450’) from private property boundaries.

ii) One hundred feet (100’) from Highway 70.

iii) Fifty feet (50’) from open USFS System Roads and County Roads.

iv) One hundred feet (100’) from the unit boundary, unless designated by the

Agency.

v) Forty feet (40’) from residual trees within unit boundaries.

iv) One hundred feet (100’) from the Belvidere ditch.

vii) One hundred feet (100’) from any fences.

F. Slash piles shall be a minimum of two hundred feet (200’) apart.

4. In the hand treatment unit, Unit 3, the Contractor shall implement the following:

A. Hand treatment areas are areas between trees marked with three rings and a stump mark of green paint and the Belvedere Ditch.

B. No heavy machinery shall be used within hand treatment unit, except by reaching in with the tracks within the unit boundary of Units 1, or 2.

C. All dead trees shall be cut.

D. Thin live trees five inches (5”) or greater to ten foot (10’) spacing.

E. Ignore live trees less than five inches (5”) in DBH for spacing.

F. Preference of leaves trees in hand treatment areas are as follows:

i) Aspen

ii) Engelmann spruce

iii) Subalpine fir

iv) Lodgepole pine

G. Slash shall be lopped and scattered with slash depth of eighteen inches (18”). All material shall be bucked into pieces no longer than eight feet (8’) in length.

H. If the slash depth requirement cannot be met, slash shall be made into piles outside of the hand treatment area, and within the treatment unit boundary of Unit 1 or 2. Equipment may be used to reach into the hand treatment areas to achieve this, but equipment cannot enter into the hand treatment area.

7. The Contractor shall furnish all labor, equipment, supplies, and materials necessary to complete project work described in the Contract.

8. The Contractor shall cut trees with an axe, power saw, or other approved methods by the

9. The Contractor shall cut stumps as low to the ground as possible, and in no event, higher than six inches (6”) on the high-ground side.

10. The Contractor shall cut trees completely free of the stump.

11. The Contractor shall not perform activities from 7:00 p.m. through 7:00 a.m. without written permission from the Agency Representative.

12. No activities shall occur on the weekends or major holidays without written permission from the Agency Representative.

13. The Contractor shall exercise due care to minimize damage to leave trees.

14. The Contractor shall furnish signs to warn the landowners and public about work occurring in that specified area. These signs shall be posted along roadways to alert drivers. Road signs should be placed at all road junctions to warn drivers.

15. The Contractor shall use extreme caution working around all structures and roads. The Contractor shall be held liable for any damage to structures and improvements.

16. 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 or invasive weed species.

17. The Contractor shall purchase, and furnish to the Agency, two-hundred fifty pounds (250 lbs) of grass seed for use on roads and skid trails. The following grass seed mixture must be followed.

18. The Contractor shall not cross the Belvidere Ditch except at crossings designated by the

19. The Contractor shall not operate heavy equipment on NFSR 801.1D, 810, and 810.1.

20. The Contractor shall not operate heavy equipment within or cross any streams except at designated crossings provided by the Agency Representative.

21. The Contractor must immediately repair any damages caused by the Contractor to the fence marked on the project area map in Unit 2. The Contractor is encouraged to utilize

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 existing wire range gates where feasible to allow access across the fence. If additional access through the fence is needed the Contractor must install a wire gate and notify the Agency Representative.

22. Existing gates utilized and installed wire gates must be kept closed accept when in use.

Immediately after use all gates must be shut.

24. The Contractor shall keep all access to roads and trails adjacent to or within each unit clear of slash and open to travel when not working in the area.

25. The Contractor shall promptly remove slash accumulation from open meadows and water courses.

26. The Contractor shall not operate equipment outside of the unit boundaries except at designated locations with prior written approval from the Agency.

27. The Contractor shall limit equipment operations when ground conditions are such that extensive damage will result. If ruts develop that are six inches (6”) deep and at least thirty feet (30’) long, operations shall cease.

28. As directed by the Agency Representative, the Contractor shall scarify access routes and staging areas to a depth of six to twelve inches (6-12”) so that at least sixty-five percent (65%) of the surface is de-compacted.

A. Within three hundred feet (300’) or sight distance of junctions with open roads, the Contractor must obliterate all skid trails and access routes with a combination of ripping, recontouring and scattering slash.

29. The Contractor shall use extreme caution working adjacent to Highway 70. Wyoming

Department of Transportation (WYDOT) will provide the Contractor with the correct requirements to work adjacent to Highway 70.

30. The Contractor shall not winch trees across any streams without prior written approval from the Agency.

31. No herbicides shall be used for this work.

32. The Contractor must provide a notification to the Agency two days prior to beginning work. The Contractor shall be required to meet with the Agency Representative before starting project work.

33. 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 sale 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 shall be equipped with an operational spark arrester and a charged fire extinguisher.

34. 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 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 shall 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 shall 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 shall 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 ensure there is no smoke in the area and that no fires have ignited.

Red Flag Alert Operations shall cease.