The Governing Board of the St. Johns River Water Management District is requesting sealed bids for a per ton timber sale comprised of approximately 124.6 acres (“Sale Area”) within the Crescent Lake Conservation Area, located north of Seville in Volusia County, Florida. The Sale Area is in Section 22; Township 13 South; Range 28 East. (Maps are included in the attached agreement.) This timber sale is a combination of marked and logger-select thinning within mature slash pine plantations. The marked portion of the sale area is approximately 61.9 acres, and trees for harvest are marked with blue paint at eye level. The logger-select areas are second thinning is at 25.6 acres, loggerselect first thinning is 34.3, and third row first thinning at 2.9 acre. Timber to be harvested is based on the following criteria: diseased, defective, and suppressed trees shall be harvested first, followed by a portion of the intermediate and co-dominant trees to reach the desired basal area range of 40 to 50 square feet per acre. The District estimates the volume of timber conveyed in this Agreement to be 2,231 tons of pine pulpwood, 1,124 tons of chip-n-saw (CNS), but there is no guarantee that the volume is present.
