Requests for Proposals

The Derffer Designations by Prescription Fuels Reduction Project (Derffer Project) supports landscape-level forest restoration on National Forest System (NFS) lands within the Upper Rio de Flag Watershed in Northern Arizona and is in line with the Wildfire Crisis Management Strategy. The project aims to reduce hazardous fuel loading at the toe-slope of the Kachina Peaks Wilderness to reduce the risk of high severity fire. The initial project includes up to 3,030 acres of mechanized thinning, with final award dependent on funding availability. Please note, the project area is impacted by numerous local Forest Service District timing restrictions.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by June 4, 2025.

Contact:

Trevor Seck, [email protected]

The Pine Canyon Phase 3 Restoration Project is located near the town of Pine, Arizona. Due to years of fire suppression, Pine Canyon exhibits extremely dense forests, posing an increased risk of high severity wildfire and subsequent detrimental impacts to water quality and post fire flooding impacts to the local community. The overarching goal of the Pine Canyon Restoration Project is to restore forest structure, increase overall forest and watershed health, and protect the primary watershed and community of Pine, Arizona.

Phase 3 operations involve steep slope thinning, skidding, processing and hauling across 89 acres.

July 11, 2025 Addendum: Added Q&A, Operations Map, and Stumpage Table to the end of the document.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by July 14, 2025.

Contact:

Caio Vissicaro, [email protected]

The purpose of this project is to provide community defense zones in the Chantry Recreation Tract. This will provide fire suppression resources with a better chance of defending recreation residence communities from a wildfire.

Pre-bit Site Visit
The NFF and the Forest Service will host an optional pre-bid site visit on July 1, 2025. Please meet at the Chantry Flats Picnic Area parking lot located at Chantry Flat Rd, Arcadia, CA 91006 at 11:00 am.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by July 15, 2025.

Contact:

Michelle Daneri, [email protected]

National Forest Foundation is seeking hazard tree abatement services around and adjacent to the facilities and infrastructure of Mt. Hough Ranger District offices, located in Quincy, California.

There are approximately197 trees marked for removal with a green band and butt dot mark. Falling complexity ranges from relatively simple falling to highly technical and complex falling of large trees leaning over buildings. Limbing of up to 20 trees to a maximum height of 50 feet above ground level is also requested.

A pre bid tour will be held at the Mt. Hough Ranger District, located at 39696 State Highway 70, Quincy, CA, 95971. Turn left to the visitor parking lot. July 7, 2025 at 10:00 am.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by July 16, 2025.

Contact:

Ivy Kostick, [email protected]

National Forest Foundation is issuing this Request for Proposal for red pine cone collection services for the 2025-2027 field season, based upon cone crop conditions and reaching the 1,200 bushels threshold. The successful bidder will have experience leading a cone collection crew, access to an experienced crew for annual collection, and the ability to provide services for all three years with the understanding that annual collection is subject to annual cone crop conditions.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by July 25, 2025.

Contact:

Monica Perez-Watkins, [email protected] & Lauren Larsen, [email protected]

The National Forest Foundation, in partnership with the Coronado National Forest, is seeking a qualified forestry contractor to implement forest and watershed restoration activities through non-commercial hand-thinning as part of the Pinaleno Ecosystem Restoration Project (PERP). The project area consists of two separate fuel types, dependent on elevation. Units are largely composed of small diameter trees with relatively high stand densities. Additionally, standing dead is a large component of this project.

This Request for Proposals is for restoration services that include hand felling of both live and dead conifers and brush species and piling of all activity slash for 400 mandatory acres with 600 additional acres available, pending funding availability.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by August 1, 2025.

Contact:

John Goraj, [email protected]

The National Forest Foundation is requesting quotes for a two-year contract to collect cones on five ranger districts, three on the Umpqua National Forest (North Umpqua RD, Diamond Lake RD, and Tiller RD) and two on the Rogue River Siskiyou National Forest (High Cascades RD and Wild Rivers RD). Most cones will be open sourced from trees growing on the forest at large, with some collection from seed orchards and/or ‘genetic select’ trees.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by July 21, 2025.

Contact:

Anna Wemple, [email protected]

To restore and maintain forest health across the Laguna Mountains Plateau on the Cleveland National Forest (CNF) a cultural resource survey is needed within the treatment areas. The National Forest Foundation will be administering this contract in partnership with the Forest Service. Within the treatment areas, the Forest Service has identified areas that require research and survey to locate historic properties. The contractor shall conduct a heritage resource inventory within “Survey Needs” polygons for identified Project Areas. The survey shall provide site-specific data sufficient for the Forest Service to locate and identify cultural resources in the project area(s). The survey would comprise pre-field research, record/literature search, data sharing, archaeological permitting, cultural resources pedestrian survey, identifying new cultural resources, and verifying location of previously recorded sites.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by August 8, 2025.

Contact:

Brian Robey, [email protected]

The National Forest Foundation (“NFF”) is working with the USDA Forest Service (“USFS”) at the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area (“LBLNRA”) to help develop a five-year strategic plan to articulate a clear vision for four important educational and historic sites. These sites include Homeplace Working Farm and Living History Museum, the adjacent South Bison Range, the nearby Great Western Iron Furnace, and Cleo Griffin House (together referred to as “Project Sites”). The strategic plan will address the following: Where should the Forest Service and its partners, the Land Between the Lakes Association (“LBLA”) and the NFF, take the Project Sites in the next five years? The developed strategy must be translated into actionable and measurable tactics and identify the anticipated improvements of the Project Sites related to visitation, visitor engagement, satisfaction, and cost recovery.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by July 22, 2025.

Contact:

Austin Justis, [email protected]