Fuels Reduction Services

The County of Calaveras is seeking proposals from qualified contractors for the Lily Gap Vegetative Maintenance, Unit 1 project. The project involves masticating underbrush and ladder fuels that have regenerated over the past 13 years, compromising fuel break functionality, community protection, and forest health. The primary goal is to restore the functionality of the Lily Gap fuel break by felling dead hazard trees, thinning/pruning overstocked saplings, and masticating hazardous fire fuels, brush, ladder fuels, slash, and logs. • The project area is approximately 156 acres, located on BLM land in northeast Calaveras County. • The project requires the contractor to masticate brush and conifers up to 11" DBH, leaving residual saplings and trees spaced an average of 25-35 feet apart. • The contractor must also remove hazard trees, dead and dying trees, and logs on the ground, while avoiding patches of noxious weeds and equipment exclusion zones. • The contractor will be required to provide a cost per acre, including services for both machine mastication and hand pruning, as applicable. • The contractor must comply with the Calaveras County Fire Plan and take measures to prevent the spread of noxious weeds and pathogens. • The contractor will be responsible for traffic control, equipment servicing and repair, and trash clean-up.