Hi Lonesome Stewardship

Added: Jan 06, 2017 8:56 am

The Hi Lonesome Fuels Stewardship Project is located on the Sulphur Ranger District of the Arapaho Roosevelt National Forest, encompassing the area indicated on the Contract Area Map and is within the Upper Colorado Forest Health and Fuels Reduction Environmental Analysis area. Restoration objectives for the project are summarized as follows:
• To provide defensible space around private land and improvements adjacent to National Forest Lands.
• To reduce hazardous fuels and facilitate more effective firefighting opportunities to maximize the potential for wildfire control and structure protection in a Wildland Urban Interface (WUI).
• Reduce canopy density and crown fire potential.
• To implement hazardous fuels reduction and hazard tree mitigation activities on federal lands adjacent to private land.
To accomplish these objectives, the contract includes the following components: mechanized removal of Sawtimber and Non-sawtimber, manual fuels modification, hand piling and cover slash from manual fuels modification.
(b) Resulting Contract - Any resultant contract will be a commercial services contract with requirements for timber removal.
(c) Project Location - Project is located in Township 1 North, Range 75 West, Sections 8, 16, and 17; 6th principal meridian, Grand County, Colorado.

FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION