Title: Marsh Road Timber Sale - Lochloosa Wildlife Conservation Area, Alachua County

Deadline: 11/2/2023 2:00 PM   (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Status: Awarded

Solicitation Number: 39280

Description: The Governing Board of the St. Johns River Water Management District is requesting sealed bids for a per ton timber sale comprised of approximately 193.4 acres (“Sale Area”) within the Lochloosa Wildlife Conservation Area, located in Cross Creek, Alachua County, Florida. The Sale Area is in Section 7; Township 12 South; Range 22 East. Sale boundaries include County Road 325, marked conservation area boundary, and marsh. (Maps are included in the attached agreement.)

This timber sale is a combination marked thinning and logger-select thinning located within slash pine plantations that were established in 1987, and last thinned in 2007. The marked area is 176.1 acres. Trees to be harvested in this area marked with blue paint at eye level. Whereas the logger-select area is approximately 17.3 acres and trees for harvest shall be selected from
existing leave rows based on the following criteria: diseased, defective, and suppressed trees shall be harvested first, followed by a portion of the intermediate and co-dominate trees to reach 45-50 sq ft of basal area per acres. The District estimates the volume of timber conveyed in this Agreement to be 2,004 tons of pine pulpwood, 1, 13 tons of chip-n-saw (CNS), 435 tons of sawtimber, but there is no guarantee that the volume is present.

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