RECOVERY - White Pine Blister Rust Survey

Added: May 13, 2010 1:54 pm RECOVERY: This project is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and is subject to the requirements of the act. The full solicitation containing all information regarding this project will be posted on www.fbo.gov around May 28, 2010.



This project is a stand inventory, particularly of white pine species, in the Golden Trout Wilderness of the Western Divide Ranger District of the Sequoia National Forest. The inventory consists of Common Stand Exam (CSE) inventory plots for which tree, vegetation, and woody debris data will be collected along with photographs. For each stand (a group of plots determined by the government) there will be a stand write up. Write ups should contain information about the stand that is observed by the contractor including information on amount of regeneration, level of disease present (particularly white pine blister rust), level of infection by other pests such as mistletoe and beetles, as well as a observation on whether each plot in the stand corresponds to the map vegetation label. Data and write ups shall be turned in to the government on a regular basis in the CSE computerized format for data and Microsoft word for write ups. At the end of the contract a compilation of all collected data and write ups completed shall be provided to the government in electronic format on no less than 2 (two) flash drives of appropriate size.



The contract must be completed no later than September 30, 2010.