Joel Fyock

Joel Fyock, doing business as Chestnut Ridge Forestry, operates as a veteran-owned small business sole proprietorship delivering timber sale preparation, common stand examinations, forest inventory assessment, and silvicultural field services to the U.S. Forest Service and related federal land management agencies as a prime contractor. All 655 recent awards are prime contracts; the vendor does not subcontract and performs all work directly without major subcontractors.

Chestnut Ridge Forestry's concrete capability footprint centers on GPS-enabled forest inventory and timber marking services. Representative work includes a $330,661 delivery order from Forest Service Region 8 for timber marking on the De Soto Ranger District in Mississippi (awarded November 1, 2024, completion May 31, 2025); a $188,842.56 delivery order from Region 3 for stand examination data collection on the Prescott National Forest using Browns transect and quick plot protocols (April 1, 2024, completion March 31, 2026); and a $145,109.76 BPA call under the Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA for common stand examinations across 4,278 plots in the Kisatchie National Forest's Evangeline Units in Louisiana (July 15, 2026, completion July 14, 2028). The vendor also holds a Bureau of Land Management contract for timber marking and cruising in Idaho's Pocatello Region (Deep Creek and Dry Ridge Layout Mark and Cruise, $64,839, June 1, 2026). Services span timber cruising, boundary marking, paint refresh, tree marking designation, stand health assessments, GPS area determination, and related field inventory work using Forest Service Common Stand Exam protocols and electronic data collection.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Forest Service regional offices. The top three funding agencies account for 77% of recent awards by count and 92% of combined potential value: Forest Service Region 8 Southern Region leads with 266 awards totaling $58.7 million in combined potential value, followed by Region 9 Eastern Region (120 awards, $19.9 million) and Region 3 Southwestern Region (59 awards, $18.3 million). The notable outlier is Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions, which accounts for only 2 awards but carries $50 million in combined potential value—the Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA, a multi-region $50 million vehicle running through March 2033 that is the largest parent vehicle in Chestnut Ridge Forestry's portfolio.

Parent vehicle position is concentrated in regional Forest Service IDIQs and BPAs. The top vehicles include a Regional Indefinite Delivery Contract (AG4670C080086) with 29 task orders and $683 thousand combined value; another Regional IDIQ (AG447UC140023) with 27 task orders and $918 thousand combined value; the Ouachita and Ozark National Forests Timber Sales vehicle (2016–2021 period) with 23 task orders and $1.3 million combined value; and the Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA with 20 task orders and $878 thousand combined value. Chestnut Ridge Forestry also holds a $5 million multiple-award Timber Sale Preparation Services IDIQ with Region 8 (October 1, 2024–September 30, 2029, total small business set-aside), a $3 million Region 3 Timber Sale Preparation Services IDIQ (October 1, 2023–September 30, 2028, total small business set-aside), a $2 million Region 9 Timber Marking and Cruising BPA (October 9, 2024–November 15, 2028, total small business set-aside), and a $900 thousand Region 9 Shawnee/Hoosier National Forests Common Stand Exams IDIQ (August 1, 2023–July 31, 2028, single-award, total small business set-aside). Combined estimated value across all active IDVs and BPAs is approximately $70–75 million, concentrated in small business set-aside vehicles across Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 9.

Activity has been flat to slightly declining, with 25 awards in 2022, 26 in 2023, 38 in 2024, 24 in 2025, and 30 in 2026 year-to-date. Combined potential value across all 655 awards is $164.7 million; combined dollars obligated is $30.7 million (19% realization rate). Only 28 awards with combined potential value of $1 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating a low immediate recompete exposure window. Chestnut Ridge Forestry competes almost entirely under total small business set-asides; of the top parent vehicles, most carry set-aside designations, though delivery orders against regional IDIQs sometimes flow full-and-open. The vendor's posture across its prime footprint is nearly 100% set-aside-dependent for vehicle position and initial award, with the exception of selected delivery orders and vehicles carrying "no set-aside used" designations on individual task orders against larger set-aside IDVs.

Chestnut Ridge Forestry, headquartered in Mayhill, New Mexico, operates under NAICS code 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), which accounts for 610 of 655 awards. The vendor has held continuous Forest Service contract relationships since 2001 and maintains operations across domestic locations including Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, and other states where National Forests are located. All work is performed directly by Joel Fyock's sole proprietorship without subcontractor involvement or teaming arrangements.