Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Salt Lake Ranger District of the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest is acquiring fuels management services to treat vegetation to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildland fires and improving wildlife habitat in the Parley’s Canyon project area. Work includes lop and scatter of conifer stands on approximately 306 acres. This task order requires the Contractor to furnish labor, equipment, supervision, transportation, operating supplies, and incidentals to perform the work in areas identified on the attached site maps. Bids should be submitted on a price per acre basis. The purpose of this project is to: - Remove the mixed conifer stands in the Parley’s Canyon Watershed to reduce fire intensity and limit the spread potential. - Connect natural barriers and aspen groves into a fuel break network that provides protective buffers around communities and infrastructure; reduces the risk of catastrophic wildfires to crucial fish and wildlife habitat and populations, drinking water quality and quantity, and recreation opportunities; and the improves the sustainability of natural resources in the greater Parley’s Canyon area. - Improve safety for local private property users, forest visitors, and firefighters by compartmentalizing unwanted fires to smaller areas and providing fuel breaks that can be quickly converted to control lines during fire suppression operations.