USDA -- Forest Service, Chequamegon National Forest, 1170 4th Avenue South, Park Falls, WI 54552

F -- HAND TREE PLANTING SOL R9Z-98-07-SS DUE 031298 POC For solicitation packages please contact Ginger Feit at 715-762-5162; For contractual information please contact Thomas Gadzalinski at 715-362-1176 Hand tree planting of approximately 800,000 Government furnished seedlings for the Chequamegon & Nicolet National Forests in Northern Wisconsin, and the Ottawa National Forest in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Planting to begin as soon as weather conditions permit, which is expected to be approximately April 15, 1998, and to be completed within 30 calendar days of the issuance of the notice to proceed. Project is 100 percent set-aside for small business. (0026)

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