Wesley D Winslow

Wesley D Winslow, doing business as American West Forestry, operates as a prime contractor providing specialized timber marking, timber cruising, timber sale preparation, and forest inventory fieldwork to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, with all 87 recent awards held as a prime and no subcontractor engagement. American West Forestry is a for-profit Subchapter S limited liability company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with Total Small Business set-aside designation recurring across most of its prime footprint — the majority of awards carry small-business set-aside language, though some full-and-open delivery orders appear in the Forest Service's regional portfolios. The vendor's primary NAICS code is 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), with PSC coding weighted heavily toward natural resources and conservation work.

Customer concentration is extreme and immobile: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 78 of the 87 awards (90% of the portfolio) and dominates both volume and dollar rankings. Within USDA Forest Service, the Southern Region (R8) anchors the relationship with 31 awards valued at $35 million in combined potential value, followed by the Eastern Region (R9) with 15 awards at $7.6 million, and the Southwestern Region (R3) with 5 awards at $10.2 million. A single outlier—the Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA awarded by Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions—carries a $50 million ceiling and represents the vendor's largest vehicle, though it has generated no delivery orders yet in the visible award record. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management contributes two awards valued at $7.5 million under the Western Oregon Stand Exam IDIQ. The Forest Service's Rocky Mountain Research Station issues smaller Forest Inventory and Analysis plot work, with 11 awards totaling $1.4 million. This concentration on Forest Service regional and research operations leaves zero diversification into defense, civilian IT, or other federal customer bases.

American West Forestry holds a portfolio of indefinite delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements totaling over $50 million in ceiling value, structured primarily as single-award and multiple-award IDIQs within each Forest Service region. The $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) issued by Forest Service Acquisitions on February 8, 2024, through March 6, 2033, is the largest vehicle, though task-order activity against it has not yet appeared in the source data. The $10 million Southern Region Timber Sale Prep IDIQ (awarded January 1, 2022, extended through December 31, 2026) generates consistent delivery orders for timber marking and preparation across Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi ranger districts — the top vehicle by task-order count within the visible source, with 24 task orders valued at $633 thousand. The $2.25 million single-award Timber Marking and Cruising and Common Stand Exam IDIQ for the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri (Region 9, awarded September 15, 2021, extended through September 14, 2026) has generated 9 delivery orders at $211 thousand combined value. Additional vehicles include a $5 million Kisatchie National Forest Timber Sale Preparation IDIQ (Region 8, October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2029, small-business set-aside); a $3 million Region 3 Timber Sale Prep IDIQ (Southwestern Region, October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2028); a $7 million Region 3 Common Stand Exam IDIQ (Southwestern Region, August 5, 2021, through September 30, 2025); a $7.5 million multiple-award CSE BPA for four Southern Region forests (Region 8, November 15, 2021, through November 3, 2026); a $7.5 million Western Oregon Stand Exam IDIQ with the Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington Region (May 15, 2024, through February 28, 2029); and a $1.11 million 2023 Common Stand Exams IDIQ (Region 9, March 20, 2023, through December 31, 2026, extended through 2026 option year).

Activity has contracted sharply from a 2024 peak of 17 awards down to 4 awards in 2026 through June, representing a severe downward trajectory. This cliff reflects the vendor's vulnerability to parent-vehicle recompete and renewal cycles rather than organic growth constraint — only 6 awards (combined potential value $195 thousand) reach completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating most of the installed base extends through 2025 and beyond, but the apparent non-renewal or expiration of major award vehicles is suppressing new task orders. The $50 million LMIR BPA shows zero task orders to date, suggesting either a delayed ramp or implementation of a competing vehicle elsewhere, and the visible decline from 17 awards in 2024 to 4 in 2026 implies material recompete or contract consolidation risk.

Capability work is uniform and field-focused: timber marking using paint-designation and leave-tree-marking protocols; timber cruising using fixed-plot and variable-plot cruise methodologies and Point-Count-Measure techniques; timber sale preparation including boundary marking, tree designation, and cut-tree marking across clearcut, thinning, and group-selection prescriptions; common stand examinations for forest inventory and analysis; and vegetation sampling including plot location, monumenting, tree-core collection, and species classification on Forest Inventory and Analysis plots across forested and non-forested conditions. Representative work includes a $232.3 thousand purchase order from Rocky Mountain Research Station for FIA West Montana plots (July 25, 2024, completion September 30, 2025), a $153.4 thousand award for RMRS FIA New Mexico plots (July 9, 2024, completion October 31, 2025), a $127.1 thousand award for 2024 RMRS Utah FIA plots (August 27, 2024, completion October 31, 2025), and a $70.7 thousand purchase order for cut-tree marking on 760 acres in Texas Angelina and Sabine Ranger Districts (September 1, 2023, completion December 14, 2023). Delivery orders range widely from $2,500 minimum-order guarantees under the BLM Western Oregon IDIQ to $58.6 thousand for 8-unit/1,575-acre timber-marking projects in Region 3. All work is performed on-site across geographic clusters — Missouri (Mark Twain National Forest), Louisiana (Kisatchie and Calcasieu ranger districts), Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and Oregon — with no administrative overhead consolidation or warehouse operation evident from the award descriptions.

The vendor operates exclusively in the federal forestry services niche with no visible commercial forestry, DoD, or civilian-sector diversification. Ownership remains with Wesley D Winslow as a sole proprietor structured as a limited liability company. The source characterizes the company as "established" since 2016 and holding "over 30 federal contracts" in the past, though the visible source data spans from 2021 forward with 87 awards in that window. The vendor maintains no subcontractor footprint; 100% of recent awards are prime, and no evidence of American West Forestry serving as a sub to larger primes appears in the source. This single-customer, single-capability, prime-only structure creates extreme customer concentration and zero pipeline into adjacent federal markets.