USDA, Forest Service, Helena National Forest, 2880 Skyway Drive, Helena, MT 59601

F -- TREE THINNING SOL R1-12-99002 POC Contact Point, Contracting, Kathy Kuharski, 406/449-5201, ext. 210 E-MAIL: PRESOL, kkuharski/r1_helena@fs.fed.us. Work consists of approximately 395 acres of hand tree thinning on the Helena, Lincoln, and Townsend Ranger Districts, Helena National Forest, Lewis and Clark, Broadwater, and Meagher counties, MT. The package will be available during the winter. Prospective quoters are urged to visit the project areas this fall as units will be inaccessible due to snow conditions when the solicitation is advertised later this winter. A formal showing of the sites will not be held, however maps are available upon request from the offie shown below for prospective bidders desiring to visit the sites on their own. Preliminary maps are available from the Helena National Forest. Posted 09/29/98 (W-SN255953). (0272)

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