Judi Sandretto-Reed, Forestry Technician

Judi Sandretto-Reed serves as a Forestry Technician with the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, playing a critical role in supporting the agency’s mission of ecological restoration and public land stewardship. While not a formal contracting officer, she is deeply embedded in the procurement process, identifying operational needs and facilitating acquisitions that enable frontline forestry activities. Her work directly informs the solicitation and award of contracts for hazardous tree removal, trail maintenance, erosion control, and forest infrastructure support—ensuring that procurement aligns with on-the-ground ecological and safety priorities. She acts as a technical liaison between field operations and contracting staff, ensuring that solicitations reflect precise performance requirements and environmental compliance standards. She maintains consistent working relationships with specialized vendors such as CLIVUS MULTRUM, INC, which provides innovative composting sanitation systems for remote trailheads, and VALLEY TRACTOR & EQUIPMENT, INC, a key supplier of heavy machinery and maintenance services essential for forest operations. These partnerships are characterized by long-term reliability, technical alignment with forest health goals, and responsiveness to dynamic field conditions. Her procurement approach prioritizes vendors with demonstrated expertise in sustainable forestry support and equipment adapted to rugged, ecologically sensitive terrain. Judi consistently champions small business participation, with 100% of her supported acquisitions set aside for small businesses under FAR 19.5. Her contracting patterns reflect a deliberate focus on empowering locally rooted, service-disabled veteran-owned, and other small business contractors capable of delivering specialized forestry support services. This commitment ensures economic resilience in rural communities while maintaining high standards of operational effectiveness. Her procurement activities are exclusively focused on NAICS 115310—Support Activities for Forestry—encompassing services such as vegetation management, debris hauling, trail construction, and wildlife habitat enhancement. She possesses deep technical knowledge of forest health protocols, wildfire mitigation measures, and low-impact equipment use, ensuring all procurements meet federal land management standards and ecological sustainability benchmarks.