Kathy Shelton

Kathy Shelton serves as Incident Business Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest Regional Office of the U.S. Forest Service, where she plays a pivotal role in securing critical support services for emergency response and operational continuity across sensitive forested ecosystems. Her responsibilities include planning, soliciting, and managing acquisitions aligned with incident management, infrastructure resilience, and ecological stewardship. She specializes in procurement for field-level operational support, ensuring that timely, compliant, and mission-critical services are delivered to remote and high-risk areas. Her acquisitions typically involve technical consulting, environmental assessments, and emergency response coordination, all essential to maintaining public safety and forest health during wildfires, storms, and other natural incidents. Kathy maintains consistent, long-term relationships with a core group of specialized contractors, including TRIPLE C-THE A & E GROUP LLC, GREAT WEST ENGINEERING INC, GDM-AE, INC., THOMAS DEAN & HOSKINS INC, and TERRAPHASE ENGINEERING INC. These firms provide engineering, environmental planning, and incident support services tailored to the unique challenges of federal forest lands. Her contracting approach emphasizes collaboration with vendors who possess deep regional expertise and proven experience in federal environmental compliance, ensuring seamless integration of technical solutions with field operations. Kathy is fully committed to small business participation, directing 100% of her procurements under the Small Business Set-Aside authority (FAR 19.5). She consistently awards contracts to small businesses that meet the eligibility criteria for size standards and demonstrate capacity to deliver high-quality, mission-critical services. This unwavering focus reinforces the agency’s socioeconomic goals and strengthens the regional small business ecosystem. Her procurement activity is exclusively focused on NAICS 115310—Support Activities for Forestry—encompassing services such as wildfire response coordination, forest road maintenance, vegetation management, and ecological monitoring. She works closely with contractors who specialize in federal environmental regulations, NEPA compliance, and field-based technical support, ensuring that all acquisitions align with the Forest Service’s mission of sustainable land stewardship.