Brushwacker Inc.

Brushwacker Inc., a woman-owned, veteran-owned small business based in Mahnomen, Minnesota, delivers mechanical vegetation treatment and hazardous fuels reduction services to federal land-management agencies as a prime contractor exclusively. The company operates as a Subchapter S Corporation under primary NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), with secondary work in landscaping and site preparation. Brushwacker competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on smaller task orders and sole-source delivery orders against its standing IDIQs with the Bureau of Land Management and a recently awarded $50 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with the USDA Forest Service.

Brushwacker's customer base centers on Interior's Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service. The BLM National Office anchors 7 awards carrying $6 million in combined potential value; the BLM Utah Region follows with 5 awards worth $1.4 million; and the BLM Montana-Dakotas Region holds 3 awards at $566 thousand. By potential value, however, the USDA Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions dominates the portfolio at $50 million on a single Blanket Purchase Agreement for Land Management Integrated Resources services awarded June 25, 2026, with a completion date of March 6, 2033. That single vehicle accounts for 81% of all combined potential value in the portfolio. The remaining $11.5 million splits across BLM delivery orders and purchase orders for mechanical mastication, invasive species clearing, and bullhog treatment across seven western states.

Recent representative prime work includes a $105,504 total small business set-aside purchase order from the BLM Idaho Region (awarded August 10, 2026) for mechanical mastication and sagebrush treatment across 314 acres in the Shivwits Plateau Landscape Restoration Project near the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument in Utah; a $308,358 full-and-open delivery order from the BLM Montana-Dakotas Region (awarded May 13, 2025) for conifer mastication in Miles City, Montana under the $5 million BLM National Office IDIQ; and a $237,284 total small business set-aside purchase order from the BLM Arizona Region (awarded July 29, 2024) for mastication of 548 acres in Potato Valley. Work spans NAICS 115310 (49 awards) and PSC codes centered on natural resources conservation, with sixteen awards coded to land treatment practices, twelve to forest-range fire suppression and presuppression, and twelve to tree thinning.

Brushwacker holds four standing IDIQs with the BLM. The largest, a $5 million vehicle for mechanical hazardous fuels reduction across seven western states, has generated thirteen task orders worth $1.3 million combined. Two other BLM IDIQs carry six and five task orders respectively at $1.4 million and $1.3 million combined potential value. Activity has been sporadic — two awards in 2020, four in 2023, and one each in 2024 and 2025 — with only one award (worth $106 thousand) completing within the next twenty-four months. The combined portfolio of $61.5 million carries $6.5 million in obligated dollars, reflecting the long-tail nature of restoration contracts and the BPA's recent award date. Brushwacker operates entirely as a prime contractor with no sub-award footprint in the source data.

10 yrs experinece in fuel reduction, habitat improvement & roadside brushing for fed, state, & local gvmnts. ROW maint., brush & tree removal & trimming for electric power companies and other entities, chemical treatment of noxious weeds and brush.