Corn Crib 26/27 Timber Sale

Description: The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Florida Forest Service is seeking sealed bids for a fourth-row thinning with logger select on approximately 376 acres of planted slash pine at John M. Bethea State Forest in Baker County, Florida. The work removes every fourth row and selected trees in remaining rows to reach a target basal area of 60 square feet per acre, prioritizing diseased, damaged, defective, forked, and suppressed trees while retaining evenly spaced leave trees. Estimated volumes are 14,260 tons of pine pulpwood and 3,825 tons of pine chip-n-saw, and the contract term is twelve months.