The USDA Forest Service has issued a LMIR BPA task order to a GeomorphIS team (including DockIt Consulting, Cattails Environmental, Algonquin Consulting, and Mason, Bruce & Girard) to prepare a Categorical Exclusion (CE) and Decision Memo (DM) for the Brookland Thinning Project on the Sabine National Forest, Angelina-Sabine Ranger District, National Forests and Grasslands in Texas (NFGT). In addition to the CE and DM, the team will prepare a biological assessment for red cockaded woodpecker (RCW) and other sensitive wildlife and plant species; conduct a common stand exam; conduct hydrology analysis; and perform a cultural resources inventory. The objective of the habitat management is to move the vegetation from the current condition to the desired conditions for RCW habitat and evaluate some of the older stands to create future RCW habitat as identified in the Forest Plan and RCW Recovery Plan; reduce stand densities that will moderate the risk of southern pine beetle outbreak in overstocked stands and fuel loadings to decrease wildfire effects in all treated stands.

The USDA Forest Service (USFS) has issued GeomorphIS a task order, under the Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) BPA to conduct heritage surveys on the Angeles and Los Padres National Forests in support of the Region’s Wildfire Crisis Landscapes Strategy (WCS). GeomorphIS and team partner Bargas Environmental will conduct archaeological phase I and II investigations that will support the Forests’ NHPA Section 106 compliance responsibilities: including, pre-field research, record/literature search, data sharing, archaeological permitting, cultural resources survey, recording newly identified site or resources, and updates of any previously recorded sites and/or condition assessments. Implementation and post-implementation support involve marking or flagging resources for avoidance, application of standard resource protection measures, monitoring protection measures effectiveness during implementation, post implementation surveys for areas that were deferred, and recording of any newly identified resources on Forest lands. Additional implementation and post-implementation support involve documenting unanticipated discoveries, conducting damage assessments or support of NAGPRA notifications and participation in associated consultations.