M & D Forestry Service LLC

M & D Forestry Service LLC, a Hispanic American-owned, minority-owned small disadvantaged business based in Ola, Arkansas, provides herbicide application, invasive species control, mechanical and manual site preparation, precommercial thinning, seedling release, and habitat restoration services to federal land management agencies exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards). The company operates under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry) and competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides across the forestry and natural resources conservation space.

M & D Forestry's federal customer base concentrates heavily on the Department of Agriculture Forest Service (Forest Service), which accounts for approximately 94% of the 51 recent prime awards in the source. The Forest Service's Southern Region (Region 8) dominates the portfolio with 26 awards valued at $21.6 million combined potential value, reflecting M & D's position as a recurring execution partner for vegetation management and habitat restoration across national forests in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Missouri. The Forest Service's Eastern Region (Region 9) has issued five awards totaling $965 thousand for site preparation and tree planting on the Green Mountain and Allegheny National Forests in Vermont and Pennsylvania. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded five contracts valued at $390 thousand for herbicide application and invasive species control at refuges in Alabama, Louisiana, Arizona, and Missouri. Recent concrete examples include a $144,609 definitive contract from Forest Service Region 8 for crop tree release and midstory removal on the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky (awarded November 2025, completion May 2026), a $73,630 purchase order from the Army Corps of Engineers Little Rock District for two-round annual herbicide application at Beaver Lake in Arkansas through December 2029, and a $37,050 purchase order from Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 for herbicide treatment at Key Cave National Wildlife Refuge in Alabama (awarded June 2026, completion December 2026).

M & D holds five active indefinite delivery vehicles totaling approximately $71.4 million in combined ceiling value. The largest is a $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources BPA awarded by Forest Service Acquisitions in June 2026 through March 2033 for nationwide land management services including invasive species control, site preparation, precommercial thinning, and habitat management. A $7.5 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with Forest Service Region 8 (awarded September 2025, through August 2030) covers comprehensive vegetation management across national forests and grasslands in Texas to address vegetation concerns from Hurricane Beryl and recent flooding. An earlier $7.5 million single-award BPA with Forest Service Region 8 (awarded November 2022, through November 2027) covers the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana; M & D has executed approximately fourteen task orders under this vehicle since award, valued between zero-dollar settlement terminations and $125,777 for large invasive species control projects on the Catahoula Ranger District. A $5 million Indefinite Delivery Contract with Forest Service Region 8 for the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest (awarded November 2021, extended through October 2026) has generated approximately $811 thousand in task orders for precommercial thinning, mechanical brushing, and chemical site preparation. A $600 thousand single-award IDC with Forest Service Region 9 for Mark Twain National Forest tree planting services (awarded January 2022, through January 2027) supports seedling and containerized tree planting in Missouri.

Activity has been relatively consistent over the past five years, with eight awards in 2022, thirteen in both 2023 and 2024, nine in 2025, and three reported to date in 2026 (as of June 26, 2026). Only five awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing $243 thousand in combined potential value and modest recompete exposure. M & D's obligation rate across the portfolio stands at $3 million (4% of $74.4 million in combined potential value), reflecting the prevalence of indefinite delivery vehicles and blanket purchase agreements where work is issued as discrete task orders rather than upfront full funding. The vendor operates as a pure prime contractor with no recorded subcontract work, focusing field execution on Forest Service Region 8 national forests in the Lower Mississippi Valley and Ozark regions, complemented by work across Fish and Wildlife refuges and occasional Army Corps projects in the South and Upper Midwest.