Jessica Sherwood

Jessica Sherwood serves as a key procurement lead within the Ochoco National Forest, supporting the U.S. Forest Service’s mission to advance ecological restoration and wildfire risk reduction across central Oregon. She manages acquisitions aligned with active forest management, including silvicultural planning, habitat enhancement, and riparian restoration initiatives. Her role centers on securing technical consulting services that inform science-based land management decisions, ensuring compliance with National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements and Forest Service directives. Sherwood’s portfolio is strategically focused on contracting for ecological assessment, prescribed fire planning, and forest health monitoring services that directly support the agency’s operational resilience goals. While specific contractor names are not publicly available, Sherwood consistently engages a network of specialized environmental consulting firms and ecological science providers with expertise in forest systems and federal land management protocols. Her procurement patterns reflect a preference for collaborative, project-based partnerships with vendors capable of delivering field-ready data, adaptive management frameworks, and long-term monitoring outputs. These relationships are typically structured as task-order contracts under indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) mechanisms to support dynamic, seasonally driven forest operations. Sherwood maintains a 100% Small Business Set-Aside posture for all acquisitions, fully aligning with FAR 19.5 and prioritizing participation from small businesses, including 8(a), HUBZone, and women-owned small businesses. This reflects a deliberate commitment to building local capacity and fostering economic resilience in rural communities adjacent to the Ochoco National Forest. Her contracting approach ensures equitable access to federal opportunities while reinforcing the agency’s broader socioeconomic development objectives. Her primary procurement focus is NAICS 541690—Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services—encompassing ecological consulting, forest inventory analysis, wildlife habitat modeling, and fuel reduction strategy development. She routinely procures services that integrate GIS mapping, remote sensing, and field-based ecological data collection to support evidence-based decision-making in forest management planning.