Description
The Suwannee River Water Management District is inviting bids for the Natural Well Branch #4 Timber Sale. The sale is for 125 acres of 2002 planted slash pine, and the purchaser will be required to leave 50 square feet of basal area per acre of the largest, best-formed trees in the residual stand. The logging slash will be scattered back through the stand, and long skid distances may be necessary due to the area's natural hydrologic conditions. The purchaser will be responsible for roads and road maintenance during the harvest, which may require grading and filling holes with clean fill or limerock as approved by the District.
• The timber sale area can be inspected at the bidder's convenience, and the harvest boundaries utilize natural stand breaks and are shown on the map.
• The bidder must submit a price per ton for delivered and spread mined limerock base and chunk products needed to access timber and maintain roads for harvesting purposes.
• The contract length is 12 months, and the advance payment is $5,000.
• The damage/security deposit is $10,000.
• The purchaser must follow best management practices and abide by the Florida Forest Service publication, Silviculture Best Management Practices.