Southern Resource Management, L.l.c

Southern Resource Management, L.L.C., doing business as Brusheater, operates as a prime contractor providing mechanical vegetation management, mulching, fuels reduction, and ecosystem restoration services exclusively to the U.S. Forest Service under Forest Service–held BPAs and IDIQs. The Georgia-based, minority-owned and Hispanic American-owned small business competes predominantly under total small business set-aside designations on a subset of awards, though most of its Forest Service delivery orders carry no set-aside.

Brusheater's capability portfolio centers on mechanical vegetation treatment, mulching, midstory reduction, invasive species management, wildlife habitat improvement, and wildfire risk mitigation across southern national forests and grasslands. Work is performed primarily in Texas (Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, and Angelina National Forests), with secondary operations spanning South Carolina and North Carolina. Representative recent delivery orders include a $454,500 mulch stands initial treatment order under the MCWHIP project (909 acres) issued April 2025 with performance extending to July 2026; a $439,500 mechanical fuels reduction delivery order for the Davy Crockett National Forest issued May 2025; and three total small business set-aside BPA calls issued July 15, 2026, for mulch stands initial treatment at New Waverly, Texas, valued at $284,900, $420,000, and $284,900 respectively, each with July 14, 2027 completion dates.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R8–Southern Region accounts for 62 of 109 awards and $47.5 million of $51.2 million combined potential value (93% of dollars). The remaining Forest Service family entities account for an additional $3 million, leaving Brusheater with minimal non-Forest Service federal revenue. Brusheater holds three active BPAs anchoring its prime footprint: a $7.5 million single-award BPA for vegetation management and biological services on National Forests and Grasslands in Texas awarded September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2030; a $7.5 million single-award BPA for vegetative management and wildlife protection services awarded March 7, 2023, through February 28, 2028; and a $7 million single-award BPA for wildlife, recreational, and support services in South Carolina and North Carolina national forests awarded August 31, 2023, through August 31, 2028. Task orders flow steadily against these vehicles—25 delivery orders under IDIQ 127DF520D0013 carry $2.7 million combined potential value, with smaller volumes under companion IDIQs. Award activity declined from nine awards in 2023 to seven in 2024 and three each in 2025 and 2026, suggesting potential flattening in new Forest Service procurement. Only $990 thousand in combined potential value reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete exposure.

Brusheater operates as a 100% prime contractor with no named subcontract footprint in the source. All work is performed directly by the vendor under Forest Service vehicles across southern national forests, with administrative oversight typically routed through Forest Service regional offices in Lufkin, Texas. The vendor's mission is tightly aligned with Forest Service stewardship objectives—mechanical fuels reduction, post-disaster vegetation response (recent BPA language references Hurricane Beryl recovery), and wildlife habitat management—making Brusheater a specialized Forest Service ecosystem-restoration contractor rather than a diversified federal services vendor.