USDA, Forest Service, East Zone Contracting, P.O. Box 130, Bozeman, MT 59771

F -- CONIFER SLASHING CONTRACT SOL R1-11-99-36 DUE 090399 POC Elaine Hilliard (406) 587-6763 E-MAIL: USDA Forest Service, ehilliar/r1_gallatin@fs.fed.us. Project work includes cutting, lopping, thinning and or piling of select trees, tree limbs and brush to prepare the site to carry a fire for prescribe burning. Buring will be done by Forest Service fire specialists. Four bid items totaling 1550 acres. Trees per acre to be cut vary from a few scattered trees per acre to approx. 200 trees per acre. Start work 9/15/99. Contract time 370 calendar days. Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF, Dillon & Wisdom RD, Beaverhead & Deerlodge Counties, MT. Posted 07/26/99 (W-SN358845). (0207)

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