Description of work: ODFW anticipates placing logs into Copeland Creek, Fish Creek ,and Horse Heaven Creek on the North Umpqua and Diamond Lake Districts and into Beaver, Boulder, Dumont , and Slick Creeks and into four ponds located on the Tiller Ranger District. Logs will be placed using heavy-lift helicopters using external long lines with chokers. Logs will be placed into the streams to improve aquatic habitats through deposition of spawning gravels, overhead cover over existing pools, creation of new pools and the creation and reinforcement of side channels. Additionally, any remaining flight hours will be used for the removal and decking of cut trees along fire lines on the Tiller Ranger District. This project will positively impact native fish species which include Umpqua spring chinook, North Umpqua summer steelhead, Umpqua winter steelhead, Oregon Coast coho, coastal cutthroat, pacific lamprey and resident rainbow trout. In addition, logs placed into ponds within the Tiller Ranger District will provide basking areas and cover for western pond turtles and other amphibians. Instream work must be completed in such a way as to minimize impacts to spawning spring chinook, summer steelhead and pacific lamprey. Efforts will also be made to minimize adverse impacts to western pond turtles. CONTRACTOR WILL: 1. Provide a helicopter with specifications outlined in Sections 2.5 and 2.5.1. and a pilot and crew with heavy lift and external load experience along with support services and ground crew to safely perform work described in RFP. 2. Conduct a minimum of 20 flight hours moving decked logs between three staging locations and seven streams with multiple in-unit placement locations. Specific log placement areas will be directed by authorized ODFW. AGENCY WILL: 1. Provide an Authorized Representative to resolve onsite issues and assist in determining the work schedule, locations of assembly areas and adjustments to locations of logs instream. 2. The Agency will provide the Contractor with detailed coordinates, maps and visual instructions for the delivery and placement of logs to specific locations instream.
