Jaclyn Mitchell

Jaclyn Mitchell serves as a key procurement professional within the Stewardship Contracting Branch of the U.S. Forest Service, supporting the agency’s mission to advance sustainable forest management through integrated ecological restoration and resource utilization. She manages a portfolio of stewardship contracts that combine timber harvesting with watershed protection, fuel reduction, and infrastructure maintenance, ensuring alignment with landscape-scale restoration goals. Her acquisitions are primarily performance-based, emphasizing long-term partnerships and measurable ecological outcomes under the authority of the Stewardship Contracting authority under Title III of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act. She routinely handles complex, multi-year, multi-objective contracts that require coordination between silvicultural, engineering, and environmental compliance disciplines. Mitchell maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of experienced 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 expertise in forest restoration, mechanical thinning, road maintenance, and biomass utilization, often operating under performance specifications rather than traditional construction or supply contracts. Her procurement approach prioritizes contractors with demonstrated capacity for landscape-level implementation, environmental compliance, and adaptive management in remote, high-risk wildfire zones. Mitchell’s contracting activity reflects a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of her awards issued under no set-aside provisions. While she does not prioritize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, her procurement strategy emphasizes technical capability, past performance, and ecological expertise over socioeconomic categorization, ensuring mission-critical outcomes are met through qualified, experienced providers. Her primary focus is on NAICS 115310—Support Activities for Forestry—encompassing activities such as prescribed burning, brush clearing, fuelbreak construction, and forest road rehabilitation. She specializes in procuring services that integrate timber removal with ecological restoration, requiring deep domain knowledge in silviculture, forest ecology, and federal environmental regulations like NEPA and the National Forest Management Act.