Starcreek Land Stewards, Inc.

Starcreek Land Stewards, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Los Banos, California, delivers targeted grazing services using sheep and goats for invasive vegetation control, hazardous fuels reduction, and ecological restoration on federal lands as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-aside procurement. The company operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and competes entirely within small-business-reserved contracting vehicles, with no subcontract work in its current federal footprint.

Starcreek's capability portfolio centers on livestock-based land stewardship — specifically strategic sheep and goat grazing for wildfire fuel mitigation, weed management, and native vegetation restoration across California federal lands. Representative work includes a $165 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management for targeted sheep grazing at Magnolia Ranch in El Dorado Hills, California (base year plus four option years through April 2031); a $301.3 thousand BLM contract for 700–1,000 sheep grazing across 900 acres at Cronan Ranch (base year plus three option years through September 2028); a $249.9 thousand task order under a Forest Service blanket purchase agreement for goat grazing across 209 acres in Descanso, California for hazardous fuels reduction; and a $191.5 thousand Bureau of Reclamation purchase order for goat grazing services on 374 acres in Auburn, California. The company holds a $7.5 million single-award blanket purchase agreement with the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region through August 2027, which anchors most of its dollar value and represents the majority of its federal work scope.

Customer concentration is narrow and regionally focused. The Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region accounts for $7.7 million (89% of combined potential value) across two awards, while the Bureau of Land Management's California Region represents five awards totaling $724 thousand, and the Bureau of Reclamation one award of $191 thousand. All three customer agencies operate land management missions in California; all work is set-aside for total small business participation. Activity has remained sparse and episodic — one award in 2021, four in 2022, one in 2023, one in 2024, and one in 2026 — with combined potential value of $8.7 million across eight awards. One award (the $250 thousand Descanso goat grazing task order under the Forest Service BPA) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and faces recompete exposure. The company's federal footprint aligns entirely with its core ecological management and fire-prevention mission on western federal lands, with no diversification outside the Department of the Interior or Department of Agriculture customers or outside California geography.

SCLS is a professional contract grazing company specializing in carry-ing out carefully managed grazing programs with mixed species herds of sheep and goats, in efforts to reduce targeted vegetation for fire hazard abatement, invasive species reduction, and to achieve ecologi-cal steward-ship objectives. We work with both public agencies, pri-vate landowners and managers to develop these targeted grazing ser-vices for mid-scale (5+ acres) to large scale (100+ acres) projects.

We provide:

24 hour on-site management and care of the livestock with routine assessments and sup-port by our staff Operations and Project Man-agers.

The usage of specially designed electric fenc-es for the enclosure of the animals to pro-mote targeted grazing in designated areas.

Trained border collie herding dogs to assist us in the herding of our livestock, as well as guard dogs for on-site protection from preda-tor species.

A ground team that consists of Peruvian herd-ers here on H2A work Visas