Title: IFB 89028 - Timber Sale, Rice Creek Conservation Area

Deadline: 7/29/2024 2:00 PM   (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Status: Open

Solicitation Number: 89028

Description: This timber sale is a combination of logger select thinning, marked thinning, and seed-tree cut. Planted pine stands designed for first thinning shall be third row thinning with selection from leave rows to reach a leave basal area of 50 square feet per acre. Stands 3805007 and 3805009 are planted pine stands designated for second thinning with a leave basal area of 45-50 square feet per acre. Stand 3805008 consists of natural pine for first thinning and the leave basal area shall be 45-50 square feet per acre. In the seed-tree cut area (stand 804016) harvest all merchantable pine except for twelve (12) quality seed trees per acre, which shall be left as a seed source for regenerating the stand. Criteria for selecting take trees from the thinning areas is as follows: diseased, defective, and suppressed trees shall be harvested first, followed by a portion of the intermediate and co-dominant trees to reach the desired basal area. The District estimates the volume of timber conveyed in this Agreement to be 120 tons pine mulch, 10,380 tons of pine pulpwood, 360 tons of chip-n-saw (CNS), but there is no guarantee that the volume is present. 

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Documents:

Documents as of 7/15/2024
IFB_89028_Rice_Creek_Timber_Sales.pdf