Description of Work— The purpose and need for this project are:  Reduce the risk of high-intensity wildfires by restoring low-intensity fire to ponderosa pine, aspen, shrub and grass ecosystems within a Wildland Urban Interface project area, moving the vegetation closer to historical conditions.  The objectives of the project are as follows:

1. Move the landscape toward a more desirable, ecologically resilient condition better able to support more natural forest structures, disturbance regimes, vegetative diversity, wildlife habitats, and proper functioning watersheds for future generations.
2. Reduce crown fire risk, spot fire potential and surface fire intensity in short needle stands by the means of mechanical and hand thinning, pile burning, and mastication.
3. Utilize Timber or other products (public firewood) – Provide wood resource to forest product industry.
4. Nutrient recycling in long-needle pine beds.
5. Improve Forest Health – Provide growing space for healthy trees, reduce fuel loadings, and increase the vigor of grasses, forbs and shrubs.
6. Improve and protect wildlife and their habitat.
7. Lower present and future mountain pine beetle and spruce budworm infestations.
8. Improve Road Management – Provide maintenance and obliteration to meet project area transportation plan and resource needs.
9. Reduce the negative impacts that wildfire could have on watersheds.

To accomplish these objectives, the contract includes the following components: stand cleaning/thinning, mechanical fuels reduction, non-commercial cleaning/thinning, and piling of fuels, timber or other products, removal and decking of sawtimber and non-sawtimber, and road work.

Project Location—The Rainbow Gulch IRSC Project is located on the Pikes Peak Ranger District of the Pike and San Isabel National Forestst approximately 6 miles NE of the town of Woodland Park, CO. The legal description is:  T11S, R68W, Sections 27, 28,29,33,34 and 34, 6th PM, El Paso County Colorado.

AMENDMENT #A00001 adds four maps to the solicitation.

AMENDMENT #A00002 changes Schedule B.2.3, CLIN 0004 acreage to 296 (page 5) and Schedule B.2.3 product to Non-Sawtimber (page 6). Changes highlighted in blue.