US Forest Service Accepting Proposals for the Pacific Southwest Blanket Purchase Agreement
Press release from the US Forest Service:
The US Forest Service has issued a solicitation for the Pacific Southwest (PSW) Stewardship Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) covering federal and local agency lands within 150 miles of the Six Rivers National Forest in addition to 13 other National Forests in California.
The PSW Stewardship BPA shall be awarded under the authority that grants the US Forest Service permanent authority to enter into stewardship contracts or agreements to achieve land management goals for the National Forests or public lands that meet local and rural community needs.
Multiple awards will be made for this BPA on an individual National Forest basis once the Forest Service has evaluated the proposals and pricing submitted in response for the solicitation. Examples of the types of Hazardous Fuels and Restoration work that may be included are cutting and removal of sawtimber, non-sawtimber, and/or biomass, mastication, hand cutting and piling, and road maintenance.
The period of performance of the awarded Blanket Purchase Agreements is 10 years from date of contract with option to extend up to 20 years. Orders for specific projects will be emailed to only the contractors awarded under this BPA.
Proposals must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Friday, July 15. For more information, please visit the PSW Stewardship BPA contract opportunity web page.
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Huh. I was raised to consider the Six Rivers as part of the Pacific Northwest. Go figure!
The Forest Service is divided into nine regions. Oregon and Washington comprise Region 6, the Pacific Northwest Region. Region 5 is all of California, and is named the Pacific Southwest Region.
I’ll never understand why States don’t take back their sovereign land from the federal government. The federal government has no right to claim States property. I understand the need for this 100+ years ago when States were young but now the land rights should be given back to the States that own the land.
The Federal land preceded the State formation. In all but the original Colonies, right? Actually California may be an outlier, in that it came into the Federal fold as a unit after the Bear Flag Revolt confusion. Texas came to be around the same time in a slightly different way too I guess. Otherwise areas were territories of the Federal Government for some time prior to Statehood.
The Federal government writes the checks for firefighters and airplanes. Let them keep it
I don’t like the Federal Government trying to take away property that belongs to our state. I think the answer is item number one in the list “saw timber.” Once they own the land, they will be free to do whatever pleases them.
It’s difficult to understand language, but it seems like it’s giving away or selling harvesting rights to contractors. You need to justify it as fuels reduction, forest health etc…? Maybe this streamlines work on private land directly adjacent to FS land?That’s what I’m reading.
It takes a lawyer to understand what they are really saying. I still think it is all connected to the dollar!
My understanding is that it’s actually a pretty progressive program. At least originally, the idea was to have at least relatively local folks get invested in stewarding the public land. At least in some cases, contractors are compensated with the resource by products of their work. And the long term nature of the contracts increase contractor security and incentivize doing the work in a sustainable manner for the long term.
If someone’s more up to speed on this than me, feel free to correct me.
Do you not get it? They already own the land, the federal government that is. They are still subject to federal laws and the laws of California. If anyone should complain, it should be the Indians and the Mexicans. It was their land before the federal government decided they wanted it.
Look at a map of California that includes National Forests and National Parks. The green part of the map is owned by the Fed. If you look at Humboldt, Trinity, Del Norte and Mendocino, very little of the land is in private hands. It’s mostly Federal. Here is the key phrase:
The PSW Stewardship BPA shall be awarded under the authority that grants the US Forest Service permanent authority to enter into stewardship contracts or agreements to achieve land management goals for the National Forests or public lands that meet local and rural community needs.
They are not selling the land or giving it away. They are hiring contractors to maintain the land. If anyone in the local area was paying attention and bothered to apply, local companies could get these awards to maintain the national forests which could lead to forest jobs for folks here locally.
Much more information about this is likely on the US Forest Service websites.
Currently they are “managing” our forests into ash heaps. Studded with charred snags. As far as the eye can see. The government ruins every single thing they touch
What the enviro people don’t understand is if they hadn’t filed lawsuits to every timber sale that was proposed there would be openings in the Forest to make a stand against wildfires, but those people didn’t spend 30 years in wildland fire like I did so all they think about Forest management is let mother nature take care of it, well you can see how well that mentality work.
100% correct!
Awesome. Now they can log the rest of what’s left and call it being good stewards of the land!
Not alot left. Take a drive and look around. From Redding. North. South. East or west. Burn scars out 299 either way or 36 either way. 5 north. 101 north. 89. Its all burned. Hat creek All around tahoe. Time for new leadership
This is aimed at getting the thinning work done that’s needed. Leaders can go lead a parade. The forest needs $2,000 an acre thinning. Cutting merchantable timber doesn’t really address fire risk in most cases. It’s all the dense 20 year old pecker poles that need to get thinned out.
I was hoping that an average person had the opportunity to buy some land from the government and put it to use