Steven P Yakle

Steven P Yakle Yakles Excavating, a sole proprietorship based in Winfield, Iowa, holds a position on the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3's National Hazardous Fuels Reduction 2024-2029 Blanket Purchase Agreement as a small business set-aside BPA awardee and performs ground herbicide application, timber stand improvement, forestry preparation, and mechanical clearing work for federal wildlife refuges across the contiguous United States and Guam.

The vendor's federal footprint is highly concentrated in a single customer and vehicle. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 accounts for all seven of its recent BPA task orders and the combined potential value of $49.6 million across the portfolio; a single Purchase Order award from the Fish and Wildlife Service (non-Region 3) in December 2023 adds $22.6 thousand for timber stand improvement work at the Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa. The National Hazardous Fuels Reduction 2024-2029 BPA, a $49.5 million multiple-award vehicle through March 2029 under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), carries two task orders to date: a November 2024 $14,860 call for forestry preparation work at Meredosia National Wildlife Refuge in Illinois (due August 30, 2025) and a January 2026 $16,800 call for ground herbicide application at the same refuge (due August 28, 2026). A third award, a firm-fixed-price purchase order issued in December 2023, covered timber stand improvement services including mulching, grinding, mowing shrubs, and stump cutting at Port Louisa NWR in Iowa (completed April 30, 2024).

The vendor operates as a 100% prime awardee with no subcontract work in the source data. Activity is sparse and episodic — one award in 2023, two in 2024, one in 2026 — with only one award (the January 2026 herbicide-application call) reaching completion within the next twenty-four months. Combined dollars obligated total $89 thousand, representing less than 1% of the combined potential value of $49.6 million, indicating that most of the pipeline consists of contract vehicles and task-order ceiling values rather than firm commitments. The vendor's capability portfolio centers narrowly on forestry support, habitat restoration, and land-treatment practices for federal wildlife refuges, with no diversification across customer agencies or service lines.