Description
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Florida Forest Service is seeking sealed bids for the sale of timber. The sale is a fourth-row logger select thinning of 185 acres of 24- to 37-year-old planted slash pine and longleaf pine on Lake George State Forest in Volusia County, Florida. The project involves harvesting approximately 6,299 tons of pulpwood and better, with a contract length of 18 months. The work includes removing every fourth row for access and a select thinning of the leave rows to reach a target basal area of 70 square feet per acre.
• The sale boundaries include roads, swamps edges, and plowed lines.
• The width of the new rows will not exceed 20 feet.
• Timber to be removed in the leave rows will be harvested based on the following criteria: diseased, damaged, defective, forked, and suppressed trees shall be harvested to reach the desired basal area.
• The Florida Forest Service reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any irregularity in bids received.