Request for Proposal for Redwoods Rising Forest & Road Restoration

Request for Proposal for Redwoods Rising Forest & Road Restoration Operations October 2019

INTRODUCTION In partnership with the National Park Service (NPS) and the California Department of Parks and Recreation (CDPR), Save the Redwoods League (the League) is seeking proposals for services to conduct ecological restoration activities including forest thinning, road improvement and removal, and stockpiling large pieces of wood to be installed in creeks as aquatic habitat structures within Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP). This project is expected to last for several years, and it is the partnership’s intent to develop a long-term relationship with a trusted operator to implement a complex suite of activities across multiple watersheds, forest types, and road conditions. Competitive proposals will assure high quality and timely work, transparency in practices and accounting, will employ local labor where possible, and demonstrated commitment to long-term stewardship.

SECTION 1. PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS Overview RNSP includes Redwood National Park, Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Parks. The parks are home to 45 percent of the world’s remaining protected old-growth redwoods. However, alongside these remaining primeval redwood stands are large swaths of forest that bear the scars of logging, including eroding roads, degraded streams, and unnaturally dense forest stands. The park’s diverse landscape supports a wide variety of habitats and ecosystems (e.g., coastal dune/scrub, forests, woodlands, grasslands) and essential habitat for threatened, endangered, and special status species such as marbled murrelet, northern spotted owl, and salmonids such as coho salmon, chinook salmon, and steelhead trout. The region also has a rich history of land use and active stewardship by local Native American tribes, including the Tolowa, Yurok, and Chilula.

Redwoods Rising—a partnership of RNSP and the League—builds upon decades of efforts to protect and improve the health of these redwood ecosystems. The partnership is currently focused on restoring redwood forest ecosystems in the Greater Prairie Creek (GPC) and Greater Mill Creek (GMC) Watersheds as described below.

The planned scope of work includes forest stand management, road system management, and aquatic habitat restoration. The main activity of forest stand management will be restoration thinning, which involves commercial and non-commercial thinning. Road system management will comprise both road improvement and removal. Aquatic habitat restoration will require the stockpiling of large pieces of wood, which will be installed in creeks as aquatic habitat structures. Road improvements include brushing, resurfacing, and watercourse crossing repair and replacement.

Greater Prairie Creek Project Area The Greater Prairie Creek (GPC) watershed includes land within Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park and Redwood National Park (Figure 1). The lower Prairie Creek watershed was extensively logged from the 1930s until the expansion of Redwood National Park in the late-1970s. These stands have been unmanaged since the 1970s and consist of unnaturally dense forests where growth is hindered, species composition has been shifted, and habitat quality is low especially for threatened fish and wildlife species.

This area is of a high priority for restoration because of its location, in context with the surrounding landscape. To the north and south lie two of the largest remnants of redwood old growth forests. Improvements to the structure and vigor of the forest in the project area will help to provide connectivity between these two critical and disconnected habitats. Furthermore, numerous species rely on the existence of mature forests, particularly threatened and endangered species. These restoration efforts will improve the quality of habitat in the space between these two forests, and will foster greater connectivity for the life supported by mature redwood forests.

Forest inventory data were collected in 2014-16 and road inventory was conducted between 2011 and 2019 (Figure 2). Many unmapped abandoned roads exist within the project area and contractors will be required to treat unmapped roads as well as designated mapped roads.

In the first phase of work, the GPC project area includes 16 forest management units totaling approximately 2,900 acres. Of these 16 forest management units, 14 units show log removal potential, and two units are designated for proposed lop-and-scatter operations (Figure 3).

Greater Mill Creek Project Area The Greater Mill Creek (GMC) watershed restoration project will include land within Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park and Redwood National Park (Figure 4). The project area is located approximately 6 miles to the southeast of Crescent City, California, and links Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park to the north, the original portion of Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park to the west, and smaller parcels managed by the National Park Service. The current forest conditions across the project area are the result of decades of timber harvest. Most of the stands are even-aged, and have either regenerated or were planted at high densities. Furthermore, the species composition has shifted, resulting in an underrepresentation of coast redwoods or hardwoods in many areas.

Restoration thinning in this first phase of planned work for the Greater Mill Creek project includes 9 management units that involve log removal (approximately 3,400 acres), and 226 acres of several small dispersed units that will receive lop and scatter operations (Figure 5).

Restoration Activities Include: • Forest thinning to encourage the development of late-seral characteristics • Improvement of key haul roads, skid roads and landings to gain access for restoration operations

• Road removal and outsloping of logging roads and associated infrastructure (landings and skid roads) • Removal, replacing, or upgrading drainage structures (e.g., culverts) from stream crossings and reestablishment of natural hydrological patterns • Reducing fuels (brush and slash material under 6-inch diameter) within 25-foot of roadsides using chainsaws and chippers or mastication • Other wildlife enhancement activities, such as snag and slash pile creation and stockpiling of large wood for aquatic restoration efforts.

SECTION 2. SCOPE OF WORK

Redwoods Rising is a multi-decade restoration project and will be implemented with a phased approach. The scope of this contract is for the first phase of the Redwoods Rising restoration project. This scope of work (SOW) includes approximately 6,300 acres of forest thinning, 50 miles of mapped road removal, and staging of large wood pieces for several miles of instream restoration and large wood placement.

Estimated scope for forest thinning and road removal activities:

Greater Prairie Creek 1. Forest Thinning – approx. 2,900 acres total a. 1,400 acres of Ground-based operations b. 1,100 acres of Skyline Operations c. 400 acres of Lop-and-Scatter operations 2. Additional Line Items a. Approximately 30 miles of known haul road removal b. Abandoned road improvement, culvert replacements, and other road maintenance tasks as needed to access restoration sites

Greater Mill Creek 1. Forest Thinning – approximately 3,400 acres total a. 1,800 acres of Ground-Based Operations b. 1,200 acres Skyline Operations c. 400 acres Lop-and-scatter operations 2. Additional Line Items a. Approx. 20 miles of known haul road removal b. 2.5 miles of new road construction c. Abandoned road improvement, culvert replacements, and other road maintenance tasks as needed

Forestry Restoration thinning in both project areas will take a variable density thinning approach and will include a suite of restoration thinning methods (low thinning, crown thinning, forest gaps, skip

areas, individual tree release, etc.) with an end result of increasing forest heterogeneity across the landscape. The combination of thinning methods used in a particular management unit will be determined by a thinning prescription developed by the League and RNSP forestry staff. At some units, the trees will be marked with the thinning prescription. At other units, sample marks will be available to train operators in the implementation of prescriptions. At a minimum, each prescription and forest type will have several acres sample-marked.

The operational thinning methods that will be used are lop and scatter (i.e., no log removal) with hand crews, and biomass or log removal using ground-based, skyline, and cut-to-length operations (CTL limited to a 100 ac pilot phase). The silvicultural approach will be consistent across the different operational methods. In general, lop and scatter areas will be predetermined and oftentimes include areas that have limited access, have forest structure suitable to this thinning approach, or otherwise require low impact restoration. The operational methods used in log removal areas will be determined by Redwoods Rising representatives in coordination with the contractor.

All timber cruise data collected throughout the project area can be provided to the contractor in the form of timber cruise reports summarized in Tables 1 & 2. Actual volumes may be more or less than those below, and Redwoods Rising makes no guarantee as to the actual volumes or amounts subject to removal and delivery. The contractor is encouraged to perform their own timber cruise or walk-through.

Table 1. Volume estimate table for GPC log removal in forest inventory units. Unit Total Pre-treatment Estimated Merch Volume Acres Volume (mbf) per ac (mbf) Removed per ac

Berry Glen A 354 73 36 Berry Glen B 209 45 15 Gold Bluffs Beach A 510 46 10 Gold Bluffs Beach B 172 89 6 North Fork Streelow Creek A 450 63 8 North Fork Streelow Creek B 385 84 9 North Fork Streelow Creek C 303 72 28 North Fork Streelow Creek D 310 88 30 Streelow Headwaters North A 313 62 17

Estimated total volume (mbf) removed by species Douglas-fir Spruce Hemlock Redwood Total 600 27,000 105 15,000 43,000 *note GPC forest inventory unit boundaries are not identical to forest management unit boundaries.

Table 2. Volume estimate table for GMC log removal in forest management units. Total Pre-treatment Estimated Merch Volume Unit Acres Volume (mbf) per ac (mbf) Removed per ac Bummer Lake 511 32 8

Hamilton Road 261 121 25 Cougar Ridge 486 31 8 Childs Hill 345 34 8 Mill Creek Campground North 337 90 20 Mill Creek Campground South 262 90 20 Section 5 346 80 18 West Branch 418 38 9 Bummer West 201 30 7 Estimated total volume (mbf) removed by species Douglas-fir Redwood Total 29,000 11,000 40,000

Road Removal

As part of Redwoods Rising, roads, landings and skid roads will be removed to reduce future erosion and restore natural landforms and watershed systems. In many cases, access to sites for forest thinning and final road removal will require the improvement of long-abandoned logging roads. In these cases, the contractor will be required to complete road improvements in order to access the restoration sites, perform the restoration activities, and finally remove the road. Most roads have been identified for either single season use or multiple season use. However, in a few circumstances the contractor may negotiate with Redwood Rising staff to allow the contractor to upgrade a single season road to a multi-season standard. This, with the intention to allow for sufficient time to complete restoration activities before removing a road. All multi-season crossings will need to meet 100-year flood discharge standards. Many unmapped, abandoned roads exist within the project area. Contractors will be required to treat unmapped roads as well as designated mapped roads.

This project involves excavating road fill from stream channels, pulling back side-cast road fill, decompacting roads, retrieving and burying debris from logging and other activities (culverts, cable, concrete foundations, etc.), and restoring the natural configuration of the land (ridges, stream valleys and swales). Trees and logs encountered during excavations will be spread over finished surfaces. The finished surfaces of all areas disturbed by the equipment shall be left in a manner suitable for transplanting, re-establishment of native vegetation, and trail construction. Reconstruction of failed sections of road is often necessary in order to access the road removal work sites. The ultimate goal of the work is to restore the roaded area to a condition similar to what would have existed without the disturbance from logging operations.

The landforms in most areas to be treated will be fully restored. The final configuration of treated areas will range from complete restoration of the topography that existed prior to road construction, to a moderate reshaping of the road bench that will approximate the surface drainage patterns that existed prior to road construction.

Stream crossings will be excavated to original width, depth, and slope to expose natural channel armor and buried topsoil. Removal of roads and skid roads will include retrieval of fill material displaced during road construction. Sidecast fill material will be excavated along road benches

to expose buried topsoil. Excavated material will be moved to stable locations, placed against cutbanks, and shaped to blend with the surrounding topography above and below the road to re-create the landforms that existed prior to road construction. Occasionally, excavated material may need to be end-hauled to distant fill sites.

The size of excavations associated with this work can range from less than one hundred cubic yards to tens of thousands of cubic yards in volume. The moisture content, and type of material to be excavated can vary significantly from one work site to another. Ground conditions and material to be excavated can vary from dry to completely saturated. The type of material to be excavated can vary from fine-grained soil material to large concentrations and quantities of rock, boulders, root wads, and sections of old growth trees. These variations in excavated material and ground conditions are inherent to the nature of this work.

The terrain in the project area can be steep, irregular, and vegetated with 25 to 50 year-old second-growth Sitka spruce, Douglas-fir, and coast redwood forest and old growth redwood forest. The nature of the work may require equipment to be used on steep terrain and in difficult working conditions. Equipment may be required to push fill material up steep inclines as well as shape and finish steep slopes. This will require the equipment to traverse, move around, and sit on steep slopes while performing the work. Access to some work sites, or portions of work sites, will require operator skill and dexterity to minimize access impacts over steep irregular ground. Large quantities of vegetation will be removed before and during excavation, stockpiled, and then spread over finished surfaces according to the post-excavation erosion control guidelines. Operator planning and forethought will be necessary to manage vegetation and excavated material efficiently.

To ensure that Redwoods Rising restoration goals are met, Redwoods Rising representatives may adjust specifications and excavation designs as excavations proceed, based on what is encountered, and the resources at risk. Contractors and equipment operators must be able to accurately interpret written and verbal excavation details as stated in the contract or given by the Redwoods Rising representatives. They must be able to visualize and plan all aspects of work required at each site to ensure that access is not cut off inadvertently or prematurely. Skill in operation and coordination of heavy equipment is necessary to ensure cost-effective restoration. Adverse impacts to park resources (e.g., natural ground surface, water quality, vegetation, wildlife habitat, etc.) must be minimized in accomplishing the required work. Direct adverse impact or damage to old growth trees must be avoided. Therefore, all road removal operators will be required to meet the following minimum experience qualifications:

● Minimum of 1,300 hours operating the type of equipment they are assigned to operate, ● Minimum of 1,300 hours performing road removal and watershed restoration work, ● Minimum of 500 hours must be performed on steep terrain (slope greater than 40%). ● Required experience must have been performed operating equipment with a factory weight of 55,000 lbs or greater. ● Forest road maintenance, culvert installation, and stream habitat restoration would not qualify for this experience requirement. ● Work experience must include road removal, stream crossing removal, and road outsloping (decommissioning).

Treatments are designed with tentative grades which provide the basis for estimates of volumes to be excavated. As the work progresses, final grades and configuration of the excavation are determined by the Redwoods Rising representatives monitoring the excavation. The Redwoods Rising representatives may instruct the contractor to adjust the excavation's grade and alignment to preserve latent boundary conditions including: original topsoil, natural channel armor, bedrock outcrops, or stumps in the growth position. It is extremely important not to remove or disturb these natural boundary features. In some locations, less than full landform restoration may be directed to preserve habitat that has developed since logging. The limits to excavations are marked in the field, and cannot be exceeded without advance approval from the Redwoods Rising representatives.

Large Wood Staging Pieces of large redwood will be recovered from roads, landings, and stream crossings during road removal activities and staged for in-stream restoration projects. At GPC, a minimum of 35 pieces of large old growth redwood is expected to be recovered and staged for aquatic habitat restoration in the mainstem of Prairie Creek. The in-stream restoration work is not considered part of this contract solicitation, but the recovery and staging of this wood is included. The target dimensions for large wood at Prairie Creek are pieces greater than 3 ft in diameter and more than 40 ft long. However, any large wood that is close to those dimensions can be used. The large wood recovered will be temporarily stockpiled at stable locations during road removal operations. Periodically, wood pieces will be moved from the stable locations at road project sites to the identified staging area at Davison Ranch (Figure 6) where it will be stored until needed for the aquatic habitat restoration project. Similar activities may also occur at GMC in future work orders and project phases.

Order of Operations A requirement of the GPC project area is that the restoration activities need to be implemented in a roadshed approach (i.e., road flow from secondary roads to primary roads). Specifically, the most distant areas within a roadshed will be treated first, and restoration activities will progress back towards the direction of the entry point. The management units have been developed and numbered to facilitate this approach. Treatments within each unit will vary based on stand conditions, topography, access, and landscape context. In general, the order of restoration activities within a given management unit that requires heavy equipment will occur as shown in Table 3.

Table 3. GPC order of restoration activities. Order Activity Description

1 Site Access and Preparation Maintain roads leading to the unit

Maintain stream crossings to ensure roads leading to the unit are stable

2 Forest and Aquatic Complete forest thinning treatment Restoration Place large wood in the mainstem and tributaries (not part of this

RFP) Maintain and winterize access roads as needed between field seasons

3 Road Removal or Complete road removal activities Maintenance Activities Maintain roads to be retained

The GMC project area allows for more flexibility in the sequencing of restoration activities as thinning units are discontinuous from road removal sites in most cases, but there are some constraints and considerations specific to GMC. Many of the differences are related to weight loads on bridges, timing of bridge and culvert replacements on the main roadways (Table 4), multiple roads that may be used for winter operations, and administrative roads that will not be removed when operations are complete. It should be noted that many rocked roads will require upgrades prior to winter use and each road will have to be evaluated and a determination made of how much improvement, if any, will be required before wet-season use. All roads designated for removal will be removed once they are no longer needed for restoration operations.

Table 4. GMC site access constraints.

Access Constraints

Likely treatment Stand year Completed by RNSP Completed by Contractor

Slide repair and 3 culvert Bummer Lake/Bummer West 2020 replacements

Childs Hill Future years 1 bridge replacement

Cougar Ridge 2020 3 culvert replacements

Hamilton 2020 1 bridge installation 2020

Mill Creek Campground Future years North

Mill Creek Campground Future years South

2 culvert replacements, temp Section 5 Future years 1 bridge replacement road construction

West Branch Future years 2 bridge replacements

Within the overall scope of work, contractors will be required to accomplish specific restoration tasks according to a schedule required by public funds supporting the project. The current deliverable requirements are to accomplish 3,266 acres of forest thinning and 13 miles of road removal combined across both project areas by March 31, 2022. Additional timelines and deliverables will be established.

Expected Scope of Work at GPC in 2020 At GPC, the body of restoration work we expect to complete in 2020 includes forest thinning and log removal on approximately 865 acres in Berry Glen (units 12, 13, 14, & 15) and sections of Streelow Cr (units 1 and 2), thinning of 300 acres of lop and scatter thinning (no log removal, units 10 & 11), and approximately 3 culvert replacements (Figure 7). At least 20 miles of road will need to be reoccupied (improved for use) to access the above thinning, road removal, and culvert replacement sites. Additionally, use of Davidson Road for restoration activities will be very limited and main egress and ingress routes for contractors will be on roads closed to the public, behind locked gates.

The seasonal operating constraints we anticipate for 2020 are: - The Normal Operating Season for heavy equipment runs from June 15th-October 15th. - No vegetation cutting or other vegetation modification will occur before June 30th. - After October 15th, heavy equipment operations may continue during periods of dry weather per NOAA’s Fall Transition Season Precipitation and Hydrology Decision Support Service notifications. In the absence of this notification, the only restoration activities that are permitted are lop and scatter operations and tree falling in cable yarding units.

Expected Scope of Work at GMC in 2020 At GMC, the body of restoration work we expect to complete in 2020 includes forest thinning and log removal on approximately 850 acres in the Cougar Ridge, Hamilton Road, and/or Bummer Lake units, approximately 4.5 miles of road removal, and approximately 8 culvert replacements (Figure 8). At least 23 miles of road will need to be reoccupied (improved for use) to access the above thinning, road removal, and culvert replacement sites.

The seasonal operating constraints we anticipate for 2020 are: - The Normal Operating Season for heavy equipment runs from June 15th-October 15th. - No vegetation cutting or other vegetation modification will occur before June 30th. - After October 15th, or at the start of the wet season, heavy equipment operations may continue during periods of dry weather per NOAA’s Fall Transition Season Precipitation and Hydrology Decision Support Service notifications. In the absence of this notification, only rocked roads may be used for road and forest restoration activities, and all road removal activities must be completed.

SECTION 3. RFP DATA PACKAGE AND SITE ACCESS INFORMATION

There is a substantial amount of background material for this project, including existing planning and compliance documents, management plans, and site data.

All maps and data are available for secure download through Kiteworks beginning on Wednesday, Oct. 9th. To access this data, please request data permissions from Matthew Morassutti ([email protected]), cc’ing Richard Campbell ([email protected]). You will be prompted to create a free account with Kiteworks via email. Please check your spam folder if you have not received an email prompt within 24 hours of your request.

Background and reference documents and data can be found on the NPS Integrated Resource Management Applications Data Store at: https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2266527.

Additional project area GIS data may be available to the chosen contractor upon request (e.g., threatened and endangered species locations data, soils data, treatment history).

GIS data: Project boundaries Roads Road Features (landings, crossings, failures, etc.) Trails Subbasins Streams Vegetation type Thinning units Operation layers (ground, skyline, CTL) Lidar-derived Digital Elevation model Lidar-derived Canopy Height Model

Background & Reference Documents & Data: Draft CDPR North Coast Redwoods District Invasive Species Best Management Practices (within the Vegetation Management Plan [CDPR 2019a]) Invasive Plant Management Plan for Redwood National Park (NPS 2017) Aquatic Invasive Species Management Plan (CDFG 2008, SPR-BIO-3) NMFS Water Drafting Specifications (NMFS 2001) ISND/EA for GPC and GMC (2019)

Maps: The below georeferenced PDF maps will be provided for printing or use on electronic devices: Project overview maps

Zoomed in maps of management units Forest operations (lop and scatter, ground, skyline) Road work maps (culverts, crossings, and road removal sites)

Site Access: Contractors will be allowed access to project areas during the proposal/bid development period (Oct. 7th - Nov. 20th). Both project areas require access to non-public, gated roads within Redwood National and State Park (RNSP) and have little-to no cellular phone reception and limited radio transmission. To acquire a key or combination code for these gates, respondents must contact the following points of contact (POCs): ● Greater Prairie Creek: ○ Jason Teraoka at 707-465-7783 and [email protected]. Keys can be picked up at: 121200 US HWY 101, Orick, CA 95555 ● Greater Mill Creek: ○ Lathrop Leonard at 707-465-7309 and [email protected]. Keys can nd be picked up at: 1111 2 St, Crescent City, CA 95531 In the event that Jason Teraoka or Lathrop Leonard is not available, Matthew Morassutti at [email protected] can be contacted. Keys must be returned to the th POC before 5:00pm on November 20 2019. Vehicle access permits will be issued with keys. While in the project areas, contractors will be required to post the vehicle access permit on the vehicle’s dashboard.

Vehicle access permit rules include: ● 15mph speed limit on all gated roads ● leave no trace food and garbage policy in the park

When accessing project areas, the contractor party must notify the POC with the location, dates and times they will be accessing those locations, and provide all vehicle information. The respondent will also be responsible for checking out with the RNSP POC by 7pm each day. The POC will be required to notify law enforcement of the planned access and provide the parties’ vehicle make/model and license plate numbers to parks’ law enforcement officers. The POCs will also be required to coordinate with and notify other RNSP staff who may be working in those same areas. If the POC does not receive notification of safe egress from a project area before 9:00 pm, the contractor party will be assumed to need emergency assistance and the POC will notify law enforcement.

SECTION 4. OVERVIEW OF CONTRACT STRUCTURE The contract structure will take the form of an umbrella agreement that integrates forest thinning, log marketing and sale where applicable, construction, improvement and maintenance of roads necessary to access thinning units, and road removal services. Individual work orders will be created for sets of thinning and road work units, with new work orders issued upon successful completion. The contract will describe rates for delivered logs, logging services, road work, and other tasks as described in section 6, with rates and terms to be renegotiated

periodically. Work orders will be estimated as the net cost of operations minus revenues from log sales. It should be noted that some thinning units will represent a net cost due to low volumes, complicated prescriptions, long haul distances, long skidding or yarding distances, and road improvement and removal needs.

The contractor will manage the ticket books and all mill receipts will be sent directly to a Redwoods Rising representative as described in the Scaling Reports section below. Mill receipts will be used to reconcile payments at the end of the work order period, and if the actual delivered log price differs from the contract rate sheet, the contractor and the League will split the difference according to a negotiated rate. The contractor will pay all required yield taxes. Work will be invoiced monthly, and invoice payments will withhold 10% of the invoiced amount, to be paid upon satisfactory completion of the work order. Labor estimates for the completion of work orders will be considered firm for the purposes of reconciliation, and changes to work orders such as the discovery of unmapped roads will be approved by Redwoods Rising on a case-by-case basis.

Scaling Reports ● All reporting must be itemized by logging technique (e.g., ground-based, skyline, cable-assisted, cut-to-length, etc.). All loads must be fully scaled. The contractor shall provide Redwoods Rising with the following: ○ Settlement reports from all applicable mills where logs are sent. ○ Log Scaling and Grading Bureau Semimonthly Certified Log Scaling Summary from all applicable mills. ○ Number of loads or settlement reports used for firewood or other market disposition (if applicable). ○ Cogen settlement reports from Power Company to which biomass material is sent (if applicable). ● All information provided above must reflect the timber volume and include species gross and net volumes. Weights and number of loads will suffice for any material going to cogeneration, firewood, or any other market. ● All material generated from this contract must be kept separate from any other biomass or log removal contract that may be occurring concurrently within Redwood National and State Parks. Any information or data (settlement reports, scaling summaries etc.) must be itemized separately from any other logging operation using similar data that may be occurring concurrently within the park.

SECTION 5. PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS 1. Statement of management approach, phasing, proposed work plan and schedule, and deliverables 2. Statement of qualifications & capacity 3. Description of ability to meet schedule and all required deadlines 4. Relevant project examples and references 5. Key staff assigned to the project and anticipated roles 6. Proposed subcontractors and additional expertise 7. Organizational chart or description

8. Any other information which should be considered, such as any special services or customer service philosophy which define your firm’s practices 9. Description of tracking systems and monitoring for: a. Log sales b. Costs c. Progress toward deliverables 10. A rate sheet describing all costs associated with the contract (see section 6) 11. A general plan to accomplish a minimum of 3,266 acres of forest thinning and 13 miles of road removal by March 31, 2022. 12. A detailed operations plan for 2020 (based on the Expected Scope of Work for 2020 in Section 2) with a technical proposal for restoration operations, and a detailed description of estimated costs and revenues, for: a. Road improvement b. Thinning c. Road removal

There is no fixed page limit for proposals or technical attachments, but we encourage them to be concisely written.

SECTION 6. LINE ITEMS & FEE SCHEDULES REQUESTED Please provide fee schedules and hourly rates for all equipment and for any skilled labor you would use to carry out the above restoration activities. Operator costs and documentation must meet prevailing wage requirements for covered workers.

Road removal equipment specifications for dozers must include a minimum of 2 rippers and a semi-U blade. Excavators must meet long track frame specification and have a hydraulic thumb capable of grasping small and large trees and brush, and maintain grip while moving or swinging at full speed. Fee schedules should detail either make and model, or size class of each piece of equipment proposed, and we expect to see an appropriate range of equipment sizes for road removal equipment.

Please identify if there are changes in costs due to season, location, or any other factors. Line items and hourly rates include but are not limited to:

Forest Thinning Operations 1. Hand crew felling trees per hour (in lop and scatter units) 2. Hand crew felling trees per hour (in cable yarding units) 3. Log trucking per hour 4. Cable yarder per hour 5. Loader per hour 6. Forwarder per hour 7. Tractor yarding per hour 8. Feller buncher per hour 9. Side set up and take down 10. Operational planning and administration 11. Misc. a. Tree girdling costs

b. Slash pile creation costs (for habitat or burning) c. Slash pile burning costs d. Roadside fuels reduction costs

Road Operations 1. Hourly rates for all equipment and skilled labor used in road improvement and maintenance activities. List costs per equipment class and model as applicable. a. Hand crew road brushing per hour b. Mechanical road brushing per hour c. Road grader per hour d. Drum roller/compactor per hour e. Dump truck hauling per hour f. Off highway truck hauling per hour g. Dozer per hour h. Excavator per hour i. Road watering per hour j. Road removal equipment per hour 2. Operational planning and administration 3. Materials purchase markup rates

Other Line Items 1. Mobilization costs 2. Other relevant equipment use costs 3. Log marketing 4. Escalation factors over time

SECTION 7. CONTRACTOR SELECTION Bidders will be evaluated on the above qualifications and following minimum criteria: ● Ability to deliver high-quality work that will achieve the project’s ecological goals ● Ability to manage restoration activities for both Prairie Creek and Mill Creek project areas ● Ability to meet project timeline and schedule of completion ● Ability to provide restoration services in an efficient and cost-effective way ● Ability to employ a local labor force ● A clear rate sheet that adequately describes all anticipated costs

SECTION 8. SELECTION PROCESS (Dates subject to change)

Contractor Schedule October 8, 2019 RFP posted and project sites available for inspection

October 18, 2019 Questions about RFP must be submitted to Richard Campbell at [email protected]

October 25, 2019 A consolidated response to all questions will be emailed to interested firms

December 1, 2019 Proposals submitted to Richard Campbell at [email protected]

Figure 1. GPC overview map.

Figure 2. GPC inventory data showing forestry inventory units from 2014-2016 and road inventories in 2011 & 2019.

Figure 3. GPC forest management unit map.

Figure 4. GMC overview map.

Figure 5. GMC forest management unit map.

Figure 6. GPC wood staging area at Davison Ranch.

Figure 7. GPC expected scope of work for 2020. Road inventory 2019 data included to show relative density of secondary roads features in management units.

Figure 8. GMC expected scope of work for 2020.