USDA, Custer National Forest, 2602 1st Avenue North, Billings, MT 59103

F -- PRECOMMERCIAL THINNING SOL R1-08-95-13 DUE 080195 POC Contact Point, Contracting, Kathleen Benson, (406) 657-6361 Pre-commercial thinning, slash treatment and slashing of cull material on approximately 289 acres (3 items). Bid item #1 will be pre-commercial thinning with slash treatment for approximately 88 acres; bid item #2 will be precommercial thinning with slash treatment for approximately 188 acres; bid item #3 will involve slashing of cull material for approximately 13 acres. Thinning and slash treatment units are located 25 miles south, 6 miles east of Ashland in Powder River County. The remaining units are 25 miles south then 15 to 20 miles west of Ashland, MT in Rosebud County. Contract time 155 calendar days. Estimated start work September, 1995. (0159)

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