USDA Forest Service, Mt. Hood National Forest, 16400 Champion Way, Sandy, OR 97055

F -- MECHANICAL SITE PREPARATION -- GRAPPLE PILING SOL R6-6-00-159 DUE 073100 POC Burnham Chamberlain (503) 630-8716 and Michael Patterson, Contracting Officer(503) 668-1739 WEB: Mechanical Site Preparation -- Grapple Piling, R6-6-00-159, http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/mthood/noca. E-MAIL: Mechanical Site Preparation -- Grapple Piling, R6-6-00-159, mpatterson@us.gov. This Solicitation is to provide services for grapple piling of logging slash and the uprooting and piling live vegetative material with a "lift and pile" mechanism (grapple excavator) rather than a "push and pile" mechanism (tractor with blade), on the Clackamas River Ranger District of the Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon. The work to be performed on slopes up to 30%. The objective is to create planting sites, eliminate vegetative competition, and reduce the slash layer to a depth of 2-4 inches. "See Note 1". Posted 07/14/00 (W-SN474869). (0196)

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