Requests for Proposals

The Pine Canyon Phase 2 Restoration Project is located near the town of Pine, Arizona. Due to years of fire suppression, Pine Canyon exhibits extremely dense forests, posing an increased risk of high severity wildfire and subsequent detrimental impacts to water quality and post fire flooding impacts to the local community. The goal of the overarching Pine Canyon Restoration Project is to restore forest structure, increase overall forest and watershed health, and protect the primary watershed and community of Pine, Arizona. Phase 2 involves mechanical thinning, skidding, processing and hauling across 347 acres.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by July 10, 2024.

Contact:

Caio Vissicaro, [email protected]

The Sugar Pine Roadside Fuel Break Project on the American River Ranger District will improve roadside safety by masticating up to 743.8 acres near the Sugar Pine Reservoir recreation area.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by June 28, 2024.

Contact:

Anne Graham, [email protected]

The National Forest Foundation (NFF) in partnership with the Coconino National Forest is seeking qualified forestry contractors to conduct fuels reduction, grassland, and wildlife habitat restoration activities as part of the Yeager Canyon Thinning Project, located southeast of Flagstaff, Arizona. This Request for Proposals is for mechanical mastication and/or hand thin and hand pile treatments across 192 mandatory acres and up to 449.2 additional acres, pending project proposals and funding availability.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by June 24, 2024.

Contact:

Luke Reents, [email protected]

In collaboration with the USDA Forest Service (USFS), the Bureau of Land Management Tres Rios Field Office (BLM), the Southwest District of the Colorado State Land Board (SLB), and the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS), the National Forest Foundation (NFF or Project Administrator) is seeking a contractor/s to conduct service work, including forest thinning and biomass removal across 638.5 acres of public lands in La Plata County, Colorado. Fuels work, including mechanical vegetation thinning, skidding, decking, chipping or grinding, hauling, and road maintenance, will be completed along the boundary of lots that are within the northern private boundary of the Forest Lakes Subdivision.

This Request for Proposals includes 638.5 acres of required public land treatments for the first phase of the Project.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by July 3, 2024.

Contact:

Nick Olson, [email protected]

The project will reestablish the structural integrity of previously constructed fuelbreaks as well as implement new fuelbreaks in locations that will provide wildland fire suppression modules (Engines, Crews, Dozers, Aircraft etc.) more advantageous and effective opportunities to safely engage wildfires and protect the community of Lytle Creek.

The NFF and the Forest Service will host an optional pre-bid site visit on July 2, 2024. Please meet at the Lytle Creek District Office located at 1209 Lytle Creek Road, Lytle Creek, CA 92358 at 11 a.m.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by July 17, 2024.

Contact:

Brian Robey, [email protected]

The Marshall Hazardous Fuels Reduction and Forest Restoration Project consists of approximately 2,193 acres located southeast of Flagstaff, Arizona. This project consists of traditional ground-based logging operations that include product removal, Timber Stand Improvement, road maintenance and decommissioning, full slash removal, and optional firewood processing and haul to tribal communities across Northern Arizona.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by July 8, 2024.

Contact:

Trevor Seck, [email protected]

The Soda Creek Mitigation Site is part of the National Forest Foundation’s (NFF) Colorado Western Slope In-Lieu Fee Program. The Site was approved by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in October 2020.

The purpose of the Soda Creek Restoration Project is to re-establish and rehabilitate wetlands adjacent to and near Soda Creek for use as Compensatory Mitigation for the unavoidable impacts to Waters of the United States. The Project will restore 42.5 acres of palustrine emergent (PEM) and palustrine shrub-scrub (PSS) wetlands. In doing so, the proposed Site will provide restored aquatic resources with enhanced ecological function, habitat for native flora and fauna, and downstream water quality and flood amelioration benefits for downstream communities.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by July 3, 2024.

Contact:

Adde Sharp, [email protected]

This project involves fuels reduction/modification, fuels removal, timber stand improvement, invasive removal, and related work for approximately 810 acres.

The NFF and Forest Service will host an optional site visit on June 18, 2024 at 9:00 am. Please meet at the USFS Fire Station 41 (5398 E Camino Cielo, Santa Barbara, CA 93105).

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by July 8, 2024.

Contact:

Samantha Carranza, [email protected]

The National Forest Foundation and the Angeles National Forest are leading an effort to restore and reopen Lightning Point Campground. The goal of this project is to reopen this campground with a total number of 5 group campsites and install new amenities including new picnic tables, bearproof food lockers, fire rings, trash receptacles, and restrooms.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by June 26, 2024.

Contact:

Felipe Lepe, [email protected]

In collaboration with the Colorado State Forest Service, the National Forest Foundation (NFF or Project Administrator) is seeking a contractor(s) to conduct service work, including forest thinning and mastication operations, across 155 acres of private land in Chaffee County, Colorado. The Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS or Implementation Lead) identified and developed this project and will operate as the primary point of contact for the selected contractor during implementation. The Trail West - Young Life Camp Restoration Project will improve wildlife habitat and reduce the risk of severe wildfire through targeted treatments on private land in Chaffee County.

The NFF will host a pre-bid contractor tour on Friday, July 12, 2024. Please RSVP to Matt Nykiel at [email protected] or 720.880.0045 if you are interested in attending the pre-bid contractor tour, or if you are unable to attend the tour but still wish to receive any updates to the RFP or specifications. Please RSVP by COB, July 9, 2024. Details for the pre-bid contractor tour will be shared with those who RSVP.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by July 19, 2024.

Contact:

Matt Nykiel, [email protected]

This contract will maintain existing fuelbreaks on 232 acres, and apply herbicide on 161 acres with the goal of improving defensible space within the wildland urban interface. Activities include the cutting of live and dead shrubs/small trees by hand with chainsaws, hand piling contractor generated and existing slash, and covering hand piles with sufficient amounts of wax coated kraft paper. The Contractor will revisit the site(s) to apply herbicide to resprouting shrubs, undesirable trees, and broadleaved plants utilizing backpack sprayers with hand wands.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by June 28, 2024.

Contact:

Brian Robey, [email protected] 

The intent of this project is to address standing hazard trees and excess ground fuel caused by the Caldor Fire. The project will treat up to 463 acres of relatively steep ground within 200 feet of National Forest System trails roads and private property, between Echo Summit and South Lake Tahoe, California.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by August 2, 2024.

Contact:

Mila Bock, [email protected]

The Eureka Project is a commercial thinning and fuel reduction project designed to reduce over-stocked forests around the rural communities along the North Yuba River corridor to enhance wildfire resiliency. NFF is seeking Registered Professional Forester(s) for project level planning, layout, design and implementation oversite of various vegetation management treatments on roughly 1,256 acres in Sierra County.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by July 19, 2024.

Contact:

Carson Clark, [email protected]