USFS Awards GeomorphIS Botany and Wildlife Surveys for Plumas National Forest

The USDA Forest Service (USFS) has awarded GeomorphIS a multi-part task order under the Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) BPA to conduct botany surveys and wildlife surveys as part of the Plumas National Forest (California) Community Protection Projects. The goal of these projects is to reduce risk of wildfire on communities, evacuation corridors, critical infrastructure, and natural resources through a variety of vegetation treatments combining mechanical treatments, hand treatments, grapple piling, mastication, prescribed fire, pile burning, herbicide application, dead tree removal, reforestation, and road maintenance. The resource survey work scoped under these contracts will provide data sufficient for informing management decisions and facilitate the implementation of the Community Protection Projects. The results of surveys will be used to identify appropriate measures to mitigate disturbance to a variety of natural and cultural resources within the boundaries of the projects. GeomorphIS is teamed with a number of our long-time partners including Pyramid Botanical Consultants (PBC), Siskiyou BioSurvey (SBS), and Elliott Environmental Consulting (EEC) for the botany surveys; and Tanner Environmental Services (TES) on the “wildlife surveys” (i.e., California spotted owl and northern goshawk surveys), on this multi-year project.