The sale area is approximately 189 acres in four separate units located within Sections 29, 20, 21, 19, Township 16 North, Range 4 East, W.M. Refer to the map below. There are no typed streams with the sale area, but there are typed streams within the park in the vicinity. There are buried and aboveground utilities within utility right-of-ways in the sale area that are shown on the attached map. There are existing hiking trails within the sale area with no special harvest requirements, but trails on the property should be crossed perpendicular to the trail at designated skid trail locations to minimize damage. There are areas adjacent to the sale area where active construction of new park facilities is occurring. Coordination with other contractors working in the park on the use of park roads and protection of facilities under construction is required. There will be other workers onsite that will require additional notifications and work site controls by the selected operator. The sale area will be closed to the general public during active work and there will be required notifications and additional site controls to protect public safety. The steepest slope within the sale is approximately 15% however the vast majority of the sale area has slopes that are under 5% and all operations for this contract will be ground-based. Sale boundaries are marked with pink “Timber Harvest Boundary” flagging. Leave tree areas known as “skips” are marked with orange flagging around their perimeter and may have no harvest or equipment entry. Patch clearcuts known as “gaps” are marked with blue flagging around their perimeter and all eligible species should be removed in these openings. Sample marking areas of all cut/take trees within the sale are marked with blue paint. The contractor will be expected to implement a cutting prescription across the sale area following a set of written instructions based on species, diameter, spacing, and general tree selection guidelines. Sample marking areas are there to be used as a reference for the cutting prescription. Pre-work training and regular compliance visits will be used to help ensure the operator implements the prescription accurately across the sale area
