Aurora Roemmich

Aurora Roemmich serves as a Forest Botanist with the Lincoln National Forest under the U.S. Forest Service, where she provides critical ecological expertise to guide vegetation management, habitat restoration, and wildfire risk mitigation efforts. Her role directly informs procurement decisions by identifying biological requirements for land treatment, native plant propagation, and invasive species control, ensuring acquisitions align with ecological restoration goals and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance. She routinely interfaces with contractors to specify technical parameters for botanical surveys, seed collection, and native plant establishment, making her a key liaison between scientific objectives and operational contracting. While specific contractor names are not publicly available, Aurora collaborates with a diverse network of ecological consultants, native plant nurseries, and environmental remediation firms that specialize in forest botany and ecosystem rehabilitation. Her working relationships emphasize technical precision and adaptive management, requiring vendors to demonstrate field experience in southwestern forest ecosystems, seed bank certification, and post-treatment monitoring protocols. She fosters long-term partnerships with firms capable of delivering science-based, ecologically sound solutions under dynamic environmental conditions. Aurora exhibits a strong commitment to socioeconomic equity in procurement, directing 100% of her eligible acquisitions toward Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to empower local, regionally based small businesses with specialized ecological knowledge, particularly those owned by women, veterans, or individuals from underserved communities. Her contracting patterns consistently prioritize small business participation as a mechanism to build regional capacity and ensure culturally and ecologically appropriate service delivery. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), encompassing vegetation management and ecological monitoring services. She also procures research services under NAICS 541720 for applied botanical studies and janitorial services under NAICS 561720 to maintain field stations and visitor facilities. Her domain expertise centers on riparian and coniferous forest botany, seed ecology, and invasive plant identification, ensuring all acquisitions meet rigorous ecological standards and support long-term forest resilience.