Dana Sturgeon

Dana Sturgeon serves as a key procurement lead within the Stewardship Contracting Branch of the U.S. Forest Service, where they manage complex, landscape-scale stewardship contracts designed to advance ecological restoration and wildfire risk reduction. Their work directly supports the agency’s mission of integrating timber harvesting with watershed protection, infrastructure maintenance, and habitat improvement. Sturgeon specializes in soliciting and administering multi-objective contracts that combine resource extraction with public land restoration, often leveraging authorities under Title III of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act. These acquisitions typically involve integrated service packages requiring technical expertise in forest management, erosion control, and road rehabilitation. Sturgeon maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of specialized contractors, including Brink Brothers Inc., Peak Engineering LLC, Miller Timber Services, Inc., AZ Hammer Down, LLC, and Dennis Kirby. These vendors are selected for their proven capacity to execute complex, ecologically sensitive projects that demand coordination between logging operations, trail and road construction, and habitat enhancement. The working relationship pattern reflects long-term, performance-based partnerships built on technical reliability and compliance with environmental safeguards, rather than transactional procurement. Sturgeon demonstrates a firm commitment to socioeconomic equity, directing 100% of their acquisitions toward total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a strategic emphasis on empowering small, locally rooted enterprises capable of delivering hands-on forest stewardship services. No other set-aside categories are utilized, underscoring a focused policy to prioritize small business participation across all contract actions. The primary NAICS classification for all procurements is 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction), reflecting the critical need for infrastructure work that supports forest access and fire suppression. Sturgeon’s technical domain expertise lies in procuring integrated construction and restoration services—such as road maintenance, stream crossing improvements, and logging access systems—that simultaneously enable forest management and ecological resilience.