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Forest Products Industry Perspective on Stewardship Contracts

Gain insights into the forest products industry's perspective on stewardship contracts and their impact on on-the-ground management, infrastructure, and local economy. Discover recommendations for the Forest Service to improve contract evaluations, transparency, and collaboration.

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Forest Products Industry Perspective on Stewardship Contracts

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  1. Forest Products Industry Perspective on Stewardship Contracts Tom Troxel Intermountain Forest Association Rapid City, SD

  2. Stewardship Contracts • An opportunity to: • Increase on the ground management • Maintain, or increase, forest products infrastructure • Contribute to local tax base and economy

  3. Reaction of Forest Products Companies • Varies from very positive to negative • Most have not purchased or operated a Stewardship Contract • Complex, with much more paperwork • Pragmatic understanding of the symbiotic relationship with the Forest Service

  4. Rocky Mountain Region Stats(for contracts past advertisement) • 48 Stewardship Contracts • 46 Service/2 Timber • 36 on AR and PSI NFs • 2 Timber SC on Bighorn NF • 34 million board feet

  5. Forest Products Infrastructure • Wyoming has lost forest products infrastructure • Forest products infrastructure easier to lose than to rebuild • Critical tool for implementing management • #1 Issue – Predictable, consistent supply of timber

  6. Recommendations to Forest Service: • Complete evaluation and award within 30 days, i.e., Bench and Woodrock • Provide more transparency into evaluation process, i.e., FPL Grant Evaluation • Align NEPA analysis and decisions with objective of bidder creativity

  7. Recommendations to Forest Service: • Include escalation provisions • Provide flexibility for on-the-ground variations • Develop consistent definition for “local workforce” – bullseye vs boundaries

  8. Recommendations to Forest Service: • Collaboration as “means to an end”, not the “objective” • “Green sheet” Stewardship Contract • “Goods for services” requires “goods”

  9. Recommendations to Forest Service: • Align stewardship work with forest products companies expertise – • Precommercial thinning • Aspen restoration • Road alignment, closure, decommissioning • Sell volume by scale or weight

  10. Recommendations to Forest Service: • Provide Engineering Estimates

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