Carney Wade Potter

Carney Wade Potter, doing business as Arrowhead Starr Company, is a Native American-owned, veteran-owned small business that delivers forestry and vegetation management services to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor under a $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA (LMIR) extending through March 2033. The vendor holds 915 prime awards spanning three decades, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides (100% prime footprint; no subcontract revenue in the source). Arrowhead Starr is self-certified as a small disadvantaged business and is headquartered in Plainview, Arkansas.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on silvicultural operations and forest health restoration: crop tree release, herbicide and chemical vegetation treatment, thinning, planting, site preparation, invasive species control, and boundary-line maintenance. Recent representative work includes a $174,612 purchase order from the Forest Service Southern Region (Region 8) awarded August 2026 for chemical and mechanical vegetation treatment across 913 acres on the Oconee and Conasauga Ranger Districts in Georgia; a $56,500 BPA call from Region 8 awarded September 2025 for brush and sapling removal on the Bethel OHV Trail corridor in Mississippi; a $64,350 BPA call from Region 8 awarded February 2026 for 80 miles of boundary-line maintenance and survey on the De Soto Ranger District in Mississippi; and a $25,438.99 BPA call from the Forest Service Eastern Region (Region 9) awarded September 2025 for manual crop tree release and oak forest restoration in Ohio. The vendor also executes boundary-line maintenance for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — an option-year exercise valued at $48,600 issued July 2025 under a $245,050 ceiling for the Richard B. Russell Project in South Carolina.

Customer concentration is heavily concentrated within the Forest Service. The top five customers account for 64% of award count, led by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 8-Southern Region (324 awards, $19.2 million combined potential value) and Region 9-Eastern Region (57 awards, $6.6 million combined potential value), followed by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (121 awards, dollar magnitude not specified in the award portfolio data), the broader Department of Agriculture Forest Service (50 awards), and the Department of the Army (31 awards). By combined potential value, the Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions dominates (1 award, $50 million — the LMIR BPA itself), with Region 8 and Region 9 accounting for the next largest value concentration. The vendor places task orders against five primary IDIQs under the Forest Service, with the largest being Indefinite Delivery Contract AG447UC070028 (42 task orders, $738 thousand combined potential value).

Activity has been episodic over the past five years — eleven awards in 2017, one in 2020, eight in 2021, six in 2025, and five in 2026 — reflecting the grant and task-order driven nature of Forest Service work. Six awards carrying combined potential value of $373 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The vendor's work is grounded in NAICS 541620 (Support Activities for Forestry — 690 of 915 awards) and PSC R408 variants, with secondary presence in soil preparation, landscaping, and forest products categories. Arrowhead Starr competes exclusively as a prime under small business set-asides; the source carries no subcontract activity.

TREE PLANTING, CHAIN SAW THINNING, TSI, RCW Wildlife, SITE PREPARATION. HERBICIDING - FORESTRY - RIGHT OF WAY - LAWN & TURF, BOUNDARY PAINTING & MAINTENANCE GPS Surveying - Grass Mowing - Tree triming -Tree whole selling - Security Alarm Systems.