Tom Ross

Tom Ross is a sole proprietorship owned by a service-disabled veteran that provides forestry management and land restoration services to federal agencies. State Line Firewood, the registered doing-business-as name, offers vegetation thinning, timber harvesting, road maintenance, and wildfire mitigation services.

Through past federal contracts, State Line Firewood has provided integrated resource stewardship services involving thinning stands, group selection harvesting of lodgepole pine, piling and removal of slash, and precommercial thinning. Specific services rendered include removing decked timber from previously harvested forest units, completing road improvements for future access, thinning to reduce catastrophic wildfire risk, and fuels reduction in wildland-urban interface areas. Prime contract awards have been made by the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region and Bureau of Land Management Colorado State Office, with performance locations in national forests and public lands across Colorado. No set-asides were applied on the majority of awards.

State Line Firewood currently holds a $50 million single-award blanket purchase agreement with the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region, intended to procure stewardship services in support of the Rocky Mountain Restoration Project across several national forests in Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota. Two firm fixed price calls issued to date involve integrated resource stewardship efforts under the Cottonwood Gulch contract in the San Juan National Forest, as well as removal of decked timber and road improvements to enable future forest access. The blanket purchase agreement and associated calls provide vegetation thinning, timber removal, and infrastructure upgrade services toward the Forest Service's vegetation and watershed management goals.

Small tract logging, brush mastication, wildfire mitigation, firewood sales.