Franklin Logging Inc.

Franklin Logging Inc. is a woman-owned small business headquartered in Redding, California, that has established itself as a significant provider of forestry and timber processing services to the federal government. The company operates the Shasta Green Sawmill facility in Burney, California, and specializes in hazardous fuels transportation, timber hauling, sawmill operations, and forest management services across northern California's National Forest System lands. As a registered federal contractor and grant recipient since August 2022, Franklin Logging Inc. has secured substantial federal funding to support ecosystem restoration, wildfire risk reduction, and sustainable forest management initiatives aligned with executive orders focused on timber production and energy development.

Franklin Logging Inc. has received four prime federal grant awards totaling approximately $4.6 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, demonstrating its expertise in both hazardous fuels management and wood products infrastructure development. The most recent and largest award of $2.95 million under the Inflation Reduction Act Hazardous Fuels Transportation Assistance program (CFDA 10.728) runs through June 2028 and will support the hauling of economically constrained materials including sawlogs, biomass, slash, and mill residuals from 65 active forest management projects on National Forest System lands, with an expected accomplishment of 1.1 million tons of timber transportation. Additionally, Franklin Logging Inc. received $907,568 under the Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act Financial Assistance to Facilities program (CFDA 10.725) to upgrade the Shasta Green Sawmill's dry kilns with replaced steam coils and end panel doors, enhancing the facility's processing capacity for timber and forest byproducts from federal and tribal lands. The company also received two earlier grants for sawmill equipment upgrades: a $696,750 Wood Utilization Assistance program (CFDA 10.674) award in August 2023 to replace the planer infeed system, and a July 2023 project grant to upgrade the sawmill scanning system to increase lumber production. Franklin Logging Inc. additionally serves as a sub-grantee under an award from the United States Endowment for Forestry and Communities, Inc., performing lug loader and kiln control upgrades at its sawmill facility as of August 2024.

Franklin Logging Inc. holds a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) valued at $50 million with an ordering period extending through October 2032. The Pacific Southwest Stewardship BPA, awarded on October 3, 2022, authorizes Franklin Logging Inc. to provide comprehensive stewardship and land management services across six National Forests in northern California: the Klamath, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Plumas, and Shasta-Trinity National Forests. Under this vehicle, Franklin Logging Inc. is positioned to execute task orders for vegetation and fuels management, habitat restoration, trails maintenance, and related forestry field services that support the Forest Service's natural resource management objectives across the region. The BPA represents a strategic partnership that leverages Franklin Logging Inc.'s operational capacity and expertise to deliver sustained land stewardship activities critical to maintaining the health of approximately 6.6 million acres of public forestland in California's Pacific Southwest Region over the next six years.