Northwest Management, Inc.
GSA Contractor
Environmental Services (SIN 899)
Contract # GS-10F-0075R
Environmental Services (SIN 899)
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Business Size: Small Business
Contact:
Vincent Corrao 208 883-4488
corrao@consulting-foresters.com
Fax 208 883-1098
www.consulting-foresters.com
Services Offered:
SIN 899-1: Environmental Planning Services & Documentation
SIN 899-2: Environmental Compliance
Services
SIN 899-7: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
a)SIN 899 1, Environmental Planning Services & Documentation
Authorized by the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978, the Forest Stewardship Program (FSP) provides technical assistance, through state forestry agency partners, to non-industrial private forest owners to encourage and enable active long-term forest management. The FSP makes landowners more aware of the various values associated with their forested properties, and provides them with multi-resource stewardship plans for enhancing and sustaining these values.
NMI has completed hundreds of stewardship plans and forest management plans throughout the west for both non-industrial private landowners and government agencies.Our staff writes approximately 75 plans annually. Several staff members have worked closely with the Nez Perce, Makah, Coeur d’Alene and Wind River tribes, along with government agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management, Idaho Department of Lands, and Washington Department of Natural Resources in areas of rehabilitation, historic preservation, forest management, range management and management planning.
NMI has completed wildfire hazard assessment and mitigation plans for Shoshone County, Idaho (2.2 million acres), and Fire Mitigation Plan environmental assessments for the BLM in the Cottonwood District of Idaho.NMI has conducted National Fire Plan-fire risk assessments and gathered fire protection information on the five north central Idaho Counties, including Latah, Nez Perce, Lewis, Idaho, and Clearwater (8.8 million acres). NMI has completed a fire mitigation plan for the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana (500,000 acres). NMI is currently working with several counties in Idaho, Adams, Washington, Gem, Valley, Ada, Canyon, Benewah, and Elmore) to complete co-compatible Fire Mitigation Plans meeting the National Fire Plan and FEMA standards.
NMI has conducted fuels modification treatments on tens of thousands of acres of industrial forestlands, non-industrial private forestlands, state and federal ground as well as tribal lands in Idaho,Washington, Montana, and Wyoming.
NMI has been intricately involved with
the Western Governors' Association to develop a region-wide format for
Fire Mitigation Plans in the west. NMI played an important leadership
and cooperative role in the 2003 Western Governors' Association meetings
in Missoula and Salt Lake City. At the Missoula meeting, Idaho Governor
Kempthorne made special mention of the company's efforts on behalf of Idaho
counties.
b) SIN 899 2, Environmental Compliance
Services
President Vincent Corrao is a Certified RAB (Registrar Accreditation Bureau) EMS (Environmental Management System) Lead Auditor for the ISO-14001, SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative) and international environmental auditing protocols.
Mr. Corrao has conducted environmental
audits throughout theUnited States, which include evaluating federal, state,
tribal and corporate laws and rules affecting forest practices throughout
the country.
c) SIN 899 3, Environmental Occupational Training Services
NMI fire managers are certified through
the USFS Northern Region Wildland Fire Coordinating Group to train in Wildland
Fire and Prescribed Fire Management in both Region 1 and Region 3. During
the 2000 fire season, NMI trained over 300 firefighters in Standards for
Survival and Basic Wildland Fire for the Clearwater/Nez Perce National
Forest.
d) SIN 899 7, Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
NMI operates a state-of-the-art geographical
information systems (GIS) laboratory in Moscow, Idaho. Through the use
of geospatial and remote sensing analysis technologies, the GIS lab produces
extremely high quality dye-based ink maps at up to 44 inches wide on a
continuous roll. The lab has conducted the fire-prone landscapes analysis
on over 20 million acres in Idaho (16 counties) since 2002.
Company Profile
Established in 1984, Northwest Management,
Inc. (NMI) is a natural resources management consulting firm based in Moscow,
Idaho, with offices in Helena, Montana, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and Deer Park,
Washington.NMI provides state-of-the-art management services to industrial
and non-industrial timberland owners, and federal, state and tribal agencies.NMI's
staff of 26 employees includes people experienced in forest and range management,
geographical information systems (GIS), land use planning, silviculture,
fuels and fire management, natural resources inventory, forest road layout
and design, natural resource economics and finance, and land appraisal.
NMI personnel are members of the Association
of Consulting Foresters (ACF), the Society of American Foresters (SAF),
and the Registrar Accreditation Bureau (RAB) for Environmental Management
System (EMS) and Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Auditors.
NMI is composed of five departments--Technical
Services, Marketing, Timber Sale Layout and Design, Fire and Fuels, and
Inventory Silviculture--each well staffed to take on existing and future
government projects.
Contact us today for a free consultation about the management of your forestlands, marketing of your timber products, wildfire control efforts, or prescribed burning needs. We also provide the region's best wildlife management, watershed management, and forest regeneration services. Explore our site and let us know how we can best serve you!