Jennifer Elaine Cota

J Cota Forestry is a woman-owned small disadvantaged business located in Montague, California, registered in SAM.gov since 2011. The company is certified as an Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business, 8(a) Program Participant, and Women-Owned Small Business, with additional certifications including Native American and American Indian ownership. J Cota Forestry specializes in environmental and forestry services, focusing primarily on hazardous fuels management, vegetation thinning, landscape restoration, and invasive plant species control for federal land management agencies.

The firm has executed multiple federal contracts with agencies like the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management, predominantly in California and Colorado. Contract awards have included hazardous fuels management projects such as vegetation and tree thinning for landscape restoration efforts, particularly in areas like Lacks Creek and Alicia Pass. Most of these contracts were 8(a) sole source or small business set-aside awards, with contract values ranging from $16,749 to $1.67 million. The work typically involves mechanical vegetation management, herbicide application, mastication, and forest restoration techniques designed to reduce wildfire risks and support climate change mitigation strategies on public lands.

J Cota Forestry holds three significant Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) and Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) contracts with the U.S. Forest Service. These include a $50 million LMIR BPA through March 2033 for professional services and natural resources restoration, a $50 million Pacific Southwest (PSW) Stewardship BPA through October 2032 focused on hazardous fuels management, and a $7 million Indefinite Delivery Contract for manual fuels removal services in Northern California through June 2025. These multi-year, multi-million dollar agreements position J Cota Forestry as a pre-qualified small business contractor capable of providing expedited task order services across various forestry, restoration, and land management domains for federal agencies, particularly in wildfire risk reduction and landscape restoration initiatives.

Forestry Support Services Fuels Reduction, Hand Piling, Brushing, Tree Planting, Thinning, Chipping, Lopping, Pruning, Herbicide Application, Manual Release, and Site Prep.