USDA Forest Service, Siskiyou National Forest, 200 NE. Greenfield Road, P.O. Box 440, Grants Pass, Oregon 97526

F -- LOGGING FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS AND REPORT (002) SOL 97-2 DUE 111896 POC Contracting Officer, Clyde Hooper, 541/471-6600 Work consists of providing logging systems analysis and design services adequate to insure the operability of various proposed timber sale units on 1,281 acres on the Galice Ranger District. Work includes, but is not limited to, field reconnaissance or office data review to ascertain conditions of topography, slope, stand condition/size/structure, and road locations (existing and proposed) as it may affect logging system design; identification and flagging of location of proposed landing locations; identification and flagging of critical terrain 'control points' (from which logging corridor profiles will be run); identification and description (starting point, direction, estimated distance and termination point) of logging corridor (terrain) profile data that needs to be collected; computer analysis of logging corridor profile data; economic analysis (appraisal) to determine logging costs; and preparation of a logging feasibility report and unit harvest plan which specifies, displays and summarizes for individual units and the sale as a whole the appropriate yarding system, required machinery size or capability, payloads, costs, problems, proposed harvesting requirements (anchors, intermediate supports, road or skid trail construction, site protection measures, etc. that will achieve the land management objectives or environmental protection for the sale. Contract time is approximately 302 calendar days. See Note 1. (0270)

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