Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Florida Forest Service is seeking sealed bids for the sale of timber. The Wishum sale is a 538-acre initial thinning of longleaf pine. The timber to be removed will be cut in 20-foot swaths leaving 40-foot swaths in between each cut. Swaths will be curved wherever possible to enhance aesthetics and reduce the look of a mechanical thinning. Leaning, forked, diseased, and defective timber is to be harvested from the 40-foot leave swaths. Estimated volumes for the sale are as follows: 7,233 tons of pulpwood, 272 tons of chip-n-saw and 750 tons of fuelwood. Fuelwood is an alternate product that can be bid on but will not be used to determine a winning bidder. If the winning bidder chooses to bid on fuelwood, then they will be expected to harvest all fuelwood within the contract specifications. Sale area boundaries are marked with double dots of orange paint. This harvest is in Blackwater River State Forest in Santa Rosa County, Florida (SFI Certified Forest #NSF-SFI-FM-CO245755).
