Buck Em Up Tree Service LLC

Buck Em Up Tree Service LLC, a Native American-owned, woman-owned small disadvantaged business, provides wildland fire suppression and tree removal services exclusively as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides, with all twelve federal awards issued by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management for faller modules, individual fallers, chippers, and miscellaneous heavy equipment supporting incident-driven forest management across western regions.

Buck Em Up is a limited liability partnership based in Madras, Oregon, operating under primary NAICS 333618 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression. All twelve awards are set-aside contracts. The vendor competes exclusively under total small business set-asides and holds no subcontractor relationships; one hundred percent of the award footprint is prime work.

Customer concentration is tightly focused on wildland fire operations. The Department of Agriculture's Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center dominates the portfolio, accounting for six awards with a combined potential value of $2 million, driven by four multiple-award indefinite-delivery contracts under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system awarded between June 2023 and August 2026. The Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) has issued five delivery orders and purchase orders totaling $92 thousand for tree removal and faller services in Oregon and Washington. The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region has placed one purchase order for $21.8 thousand. The two rankings align completely — the same three agencies appear across both volume and dollar counts.

Buck Em Up holds six standing-offer VIPR indefinite-delivery contracts carrying combined ceiling values of approximately $1.75 million. Four NIFC IDIQs awarded in February and August 2026 cover chippers for Regions 5 and 6 ($250 thousand), miscellaneous heavy equipment for Region 6 ($250 thousand), and fallers for West Zone Regions 5 and 6 (two awards of $500 thousand each, August 2026). Two earlier NIFC awards issued in August 2023 and June 2023 cover fallers for West Zone Regions 5 and 6 at $250 thousand each and run through June and August 2028. These VIPR vehicles function as on-call standing offers with task order drawdown tied to incident demand; only $114 thousand of the $2.1 million combined potential value has been obligated to date, reflecting the incident-driven, variable-utilization model. Recent delivery orders under VIPR include a $39.8 thousand order from the Pacific Northwest Region issued July 10, 2026, for tree removal services in Pendleton, Oregon (completion July 24, 2026), and a $21.3 thousand order issued July 31, 2026, for tree removal in Sandy, Oregon (completion August 7, 2026). Activity accelerated sharply in 2026, with eight awards issued year-to-date compared to one in 2025 and one in 2024, though the low dollar-obligated-to-potential-value ratio (5%) indicates these are standing offers awaiting incident-based task order drawdown rather than committed spending.