Westside presale services. Newport, three rivers and sullivan lake ranger districts.

SCOPE OF WORK
The awarded contract is for commercial timber harvest unit layout, boundary painting, data collection using GPS, tree marking services, and cruising located on the Newport, Three Rivers, and Sullivan Lake Ranger Districts, with the majority of work being commercial timber harvest unit layout. The end results required under this contract is to layout harvest units, paint harvest unit boundaries, GPS, mark trees following silvicultural prescriptions, and cruising in harvest units to the standards included herein and to the standards stated in the Timber Cruising Handbook (FSH 2409.12) chapter 50, Area Determination, Timber Cruising Handbook (FSH 2409.12), layout specifications guide, boundary marking guide and in the Government's Quality Control Plan.

PROJECT LOCATION
The Sanpoil project is located north of the Colville Indian Reservation, east of Highway 21, south of Highway 20, and is roughly 1 mile south of Republic. The project is on the Republic Ranger District of the Colville National Forest in an area that contains a mix of moist and dry stand types. Special features include the Bald Snow, Thirteen Mile, and Cougar Mountain Inventoried Roadless Areas; the Sanpoil River, wildland urban interface, and key ingress/egress routes including McMann Creek and Hall Creek Roads. The legal description of the area is T35N R32E Sections 24, 25, 36; T35N R 33E Sections 1-36; T35N R34E Sections 1-10, 15-22, 27-35; T36N R33E Sections 17, 20, 21, 25-29, 32-36; T36N R34E Sections 27-36. Slopes in the area range from 0 to 75 percent, with an average slope of less than 50 percent.

The solicitation will be posted around May 15th 2019. The desired start of work is soon after contract award.

Funding is not available right now. The Government reserves the right to cancel the Solicitation at any time.

Technical point of contact is Jason Radcliff at (509) 775-7442 or email jason.radcliff@usda.gov

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