Flathead National Forest, Attn: Contracting, 1935 Third Avenue East, Kalispell, MT 59901

F -- HAND TREE THINNING SOL RFQ R1-10-97-38 DUE 073097 POC Barb Venturini/Nola Rice, 406-758-5318/406-758-5310. The Flathead National Forest will be advertising a Request for Quotations for one bid item totalling 251 acres of Hand Tree Thinning on the Tally Lake Ranger District, Flathead County, Montana. Issue date, July 9, 1997. Completion date, August 31, 1998. Notice to Proceed is estimated to be issued August 15, 1997. See Numbered Note(s): 1. (0175)

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