Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

• The Bridger-Teton National Forest is planning to conduct a fuels/vegetation treatment project that will utilize Farm Bill authority to treat up to 720 acres for commercial timber harvest and stand i... • The Bridger-Teton National Forest is planning to conduct a fuels/vegetation treatment project that will utilize Farm Bill authority to treat up to 720 acres for commercial timber harvest and stand improvement. The goal is threefold: 1. Protection - Provide an appropriate fire protection and use program that is economically efficient, responsive to land management objectives and provides for public safety and protection of property values. 2. Fire Management Standards - The Forest Fire Management Plan (FMP) will provide operational direction for implementation of the Forest’s land management plan. The interdisciplinary developed FMP will be developed and implemented in coordination with local, state, and other federal agencies. Firefighter and public safety is the highest priority during all fire management activities. 3. Prescribed Fire Guideline - Prescribed fire may be used to accomplish resource management objectives which include, but are not limited to: • Protecting, enhancing, or providing desirable habitat for Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive species • Insect and disease suppression • Reducing fuel loading to acceptable levels • Improving or developing desired wildlife habitat conditions; Improving livestock forage conditions • Achieving other desired vegetation conditions to meet management objectives; and • Maintaining fire-dependent animal or plant species.