The Lake County Forest Preserve District (Owner) is bidding out 7 (seven) clearing projects located throughout Lake County and Kenosha County, Wisconsin. Bidders can bid on one or all projects.  The Owner intends to award each project to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder.

The Lake County Forest Preserve District (Owner) conducts removal of invasive woody species as part of a Land Management Program to restore and enhance woodlands, savannas, prairies and wetlands to increase the health, diversity, and sustainability of flora and wildlife populations and to restore or enhance ecosystem services. The Owner intends to conduct woody invasive plant clearing work in several forest preserves (Projects).  The Work of each project is described in detail in Section 2, and for each project includes all labor, equipment, and materials to selectively remove invasive woody trees and shrubs and thin native species by hand cutting with chainsaws and/ or mechanically.  Staging, parking, access to the project areas (Work Site) is described for each project in Section 2. Extreme care shall be taken when conducting work within each Work Sites to lessen damage to native vegetation. 

Work for each project shall include cutting, brush pile burning, chipping (including offsite disposal) and or log hauling (see project descriptions if scope includes hauling of logs), selective wick herbicide application to cut stumps and follow-up foliar wick application to resprouts and small stems. 

Captain Daniel Wright Woods Forest Preserve

Lincolnshire, IL

Chiwaukee Prairie State Natural Area

Pleasant Prairie, WI

Grant Woods Forest Preserve

Lake Villa, IL

MacArthur Woods Forest Preserve

Mettawa, IL

Middlefork Savanna Forest Preserve

Wauconda, IL

Wadsworth Savanna Forest Preserve

Wadsworth, IL

Van Patten Forest Preserve

Wadsworth, IL