7075-19 - Wildfire Partners Zone 3 Forestry Contractors

Boulder County is a seeking one forestry contractor with experience conducting complex hazardous fuels treatment, preferably on private land. This scope of work includes 15 separate zone 3 projects, totaling 142 acres. All of these landowners have completed their defensible space in zones 1 and 2 (100 feet around their homes). This zone 3 work occurs outside zones 1 and 2 as depicted on the maps of each project. A summary table of the projects is included below. The majority of the treatment acres are individual tree marked with patch cuts and aspen regeneration represented as limited treatment types.

FORESTRY OPERATIONS AND CONDITIONS
Contractors shall submit a detailed operations plan that employs cost effective treatment methods while complying with all environmental and operational conditions. Contractors should describe their preferred methods for felling, yarding, processing, transporting, and disposing of/using all material. The equipment to be used in each phase of the operations shall also be described. Contractors should propose to utilize whatever equipment they judge to be appropriate for this project (which may differ for different sites), including mechanical harvesters, skidders, and forwarders, as long as required operational conditions are met.