Katie Grenier

Katie Grenier serves as a Botanist with the Ochoco National Forest, where she provides critical ecological expertise to guide forest management acquisitions aligned with the U.S. Forest Service’s mission of ecosystem sustainability. Her role involves evaluating scientific needs for habitat restoration, riparian enhancement, and fuel reduction projects, ensuring that procurement actions support evidence-based silvicultural practices. Grenier works closely with contracting staff to define technical requirements for ecological services, ensuring acquisitions reflect best practices in native plant propagation, invasive species control, and post-fire recovery. She is instrumental in shaping solicitations that prioritize ecological outcomes over purely logistical deliverables, bridging scientific rigor with procurement compliance. While specific contractor names are not publicly available, Grenier consistently collaborates with specialized environmental consulting firms and ecological restoration contractors with demonstrated expertise in native plant ecology, vegetation monitoring, and prescribed burn planning. Her working relationships emphasize technical competence and adaptive management capacity, favoring vendors who can deliver long-term monitoring data and implement science-driven interventions. She engages primarily with firms capable of integrating field botany, GIS analysis, and ecological modeling into project execution. Grenier’s procurement strategy reflects a 100% commitment to small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a strong preference for contracting with small, locally rooted enterprises that bring regional ecological knowledge and workforce development to central Oregon. Her approach actively supports socioeconomic goals by prioritizing small businesses with proven experience in native plant production, forest health assessment, and habitat rehabilitation, fostering community resilience through targeted contracting. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), encompassing vegetation management, fuel reduction, and ecological monitoring services, with a secondary emphasis on NAICS 541690 (Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services) for specialized botanical assessments and restoration planning. She routinely procures services related to plant identification, seed collection, nursery propagation, and riparian buffer design, leveraging deep expertise in Pacific Northwest flora and forest ecosystem dynamics to ensure scientifically sound and ecologically resilient outcomes.