The Governing Board of the St. Johns River Water Management District is requesting sealed bids for a per ton timber sale comprised of 330.3 acres within the Silver Springs Forest Conservation Area, located approximately 1.5 miles northeast of Silver Springs, Florida. The Sale Area is located in Section 16; Township 14 South; Range 23 East. Sale boundaries include powerline right-of-way, recently thinned pine stands, marked property boundary, and premerchantable pine stands. (Maps are included in the attached agreement.)

This timber sale is a combination of marked and logger-select thinning. The marked area consists of 48.8 acres of mature pine marked for second thinning. Trees for harvest are marked with blue paint at eye level. The logger-select thinning area consists of 281.5 acers of first thinning in merchantable pine stands. Timber to be removed includes every fourth row for access (or third row at the District’s Sale Manager’s discretion) and a select thinning of the leave rows to reach an average target of 200 trees per acre. Timber to be re-moved from leave rows will be harvested based on the following criteria: diseased, defective, and suppressed trees shall be harvested first, followed by a portion of the in-terminate and co-dominant trees to reach the desired density. Dominant trees shall not be harvested from leave rows. The District estimates the volume of timber conveyed in this Agreement to be 1,100 tons of pulpwood, 1,360 tons of chip-n-saw, 60 tons of sawtimber, but there is no guarantee that the volume is present.

PLEASE NOTE:
• Advance Payment of 20% is required (Section 6)
• Security Deposit requirement of $5,000 is required (Section 7)