Requests for Proposals
YWI contracts with experienced operators and consultants to carry out forest restoration and stewardship work across the Yuba River watershed. Active opportunities, addenda, and award notices are posted here.
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5 opportunitiesSouth Yuba Rim Hazardous Fuels Reduction — Phase 2: Fuels Reduction Contractor Services
YWI is seeking fuels reduction contractors to treat about 232 acres of private land across 31 parcels on San Juan Ridge — hand thinning with pile burning, mastication, lop and scatter, broadcast burning, cut-and-drag of blackberry, and burning of existing piles. Seven separately awardable Bid Items; a non-mandatory pre-proposal field meeting is September 18.
- Submission deadline
- October 2, 2026
- Project area
- 232 acres
- Funding
- CAL FIRE (CCI / GGRF)
Round Mountain Landscape Resilience Project — Phase 1: Fuels Reduction Contractor Services
YWI is seeking fuels reduction contractors to establish a ridgetop shaded fuel break on about 152 acres of BLM land at Round Mountain — hand cutting and piling on steep ground, roadside hand thinning with chipping and chip haul-off, and mastication or tracked chipping in the outer band. Three separately awardable Bid Items. Question responses and Addendum No. 1 were posted September 25; proposals are due October 2.
- Submission deadline
- October 2, 2026
- Project area
- 152 acres
- Funding
- Sierra Nevada Conservancy (Prop 4)
Round Mountain 2026 Timber Operations
YWI is seeking a Licensed Timber Operator (Class A) to implement a 40-acre timber harvest on private forestland at Round Mountain — cutting and hauling merchantable incense cedar, thinning sub-merchantable trees and brush, building mechanical burn piles, and constructing about 3,610 feet of fireline. A pre-proposal field meeting on August 24 is mandatory.
- Submission deadline
- September 14, 2026
- Project area
- 40 acres
- Funding
- Sierra Nevada Conservancy (Prop 4)
South Yuba Rim Hazardous Fuels Reduction — Phase 2: Qualified Biologist Services
YWI is seeking a qualified biologist or ecological consulting firm to conduct focused special-status species surveys, on-call compliance support, and reporting for a 232-acre fuels reduction project on San Juan Ridge.
- Submission deadline
- July 1, 2026
- Project area
- 232 acres
- Funding
- CAL FIRE (CCI / GGRF)
‘Inimim Forest Restoration — Phase 3 Timber Harvest
Contractors are invited to submit proposals for a 258-acre timber harvest with a mix of marked units and designation-by-prescription on the San Juan Ridge.
- Submission deadline
- October 3, 2025
- Project area
- 258 acres
- Funding
- Sierra Nevada Conservancy
The proposal process
RFP posted
The full RFP and exhibits are published with a submission deadline and a contact for questions.
Questions answered
Questions from prospective bidders are answered publicly and posted to a shared Q&A for all to see.
Addenda & revised RFP
Clarifications or scope changes are issued as numbered addenda, including a revised RFP when needed.
Notice of award
After review, YWI posts a Notice of Intent to Award identifying the selected contractor.