SOLICITATION NOTICE
F -- Grazing Control - Yellow Starthistle
- Notice Date
- 4/18/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 115310
— Support Activities for Forestry
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, R-1 Nez Perce National Forest, Route 2, Box 475, Grangeville, ID, 83530
- ZIP Code
- 83530
- Solicitation Number
- RFQ-R1-17-6-020
- Description
- Presolicitation Notice - Solicitation will be available in May. Grazing control of yellow starthistle. This contract is to provide approximately 1000 head of yearling goats (or older) with herders, guard and herd dogs, to control 800-1000 acres of yellow starthistle in a study area on lower Bentz Ridge, Northeast of White Bird Idaho, on the Nez Perce National Forest. The project area is an open steep grassland slope bounded on the south by South Fork White Bird Creek and Pinnacle Creek. The North boundary consists of Bentz Ridge. The objective is to shrink the target weed population extent and density, and reduce seed production of this Idaho noxious weed by 90% while maintaining desirable vegetation. Grazing would occur during two prescriptive periods: 30 days during the bolting/early-flower phase of yellowstar (June-July) and an additional 30 days, if necessary, in the fall prior to seed scatter (October). Camp access and management would require the use of an ATV or Pack animals along Bentz Ridge. The contractor will need to provide a set of portable watering troughs to draft water from White Bird Creek, and to arrange for pasture or feed outside the prescriptive season and off the National Forest. The animals brought to the National Forest must have been managed as a herd for at least 6 months prior to turn-on. Contract completion date is anticipated to be in November 2006.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Nez Perce National Forest, 1005 Highway 13, Grangeville, ID
- Zip Code: 83530
- Zip Code: 83530
- Record
- SN01029908-W 20060420/060418220353 (fbodaily.com)
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