Marissa Jones

Marissa Jones serves as a key procurement professional within the Stewardship Contracting Branch of the U.S. Forest Service, supporting the agency’s mission to advance landscape-scale ecological restoration through strategic contracting. She manages a portfolio of stewardship contracts that integrate timber harvesting with watershed protection, wildfire risk reduction, and infrastructure maintenance, ensuring alignment with sustainable forest management goals. Her acquisitions primarily involve complex, multi-objective contracts that require balancing ecological outcomes with resource extraction, often utilizing authority under the Stewardship Contracting authority of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act. She specializes in long-term, performance-based agreements that incentivize ecosystem health improvements alongside timber production. Jones 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 recognized for their technical expertise in forest restoration, heavy equipment operations, and ecological site rehabilitation. Her procurement approach favors contractors with proven capacity to execute integrated, multi-resource projects across remote and ecologically sensitive landscapes, fostering long-term partnerships grounded in performance reliability and environmental compliance. Her contracting activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition, reflecting a focus on technical capability and project scale over socioeconomic preferences. While she does not prioritize 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides, her process remains transparent and competitive, ensuring the selection of the most qualified firms to deliver complex stewardship outcomes. Jones’s procurement focus is exclusively under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), encompassing services such as fuels reduction, trail and road maintenance, invasive species control, and silvicultural operations. Her domain expertise lies in contracting for ecological restoration services that require specialized forestry knowledge, equipment, and field logistics, ensuring that acquisitions directly support the Forest Service’s resilience and sustainability objectives.