Sheila Finney

Sheila Finney serves as a key procurement professional within the Umpqua National Forest, supporting the U.S. Forest Service’s mission to sustain healthy forest ecosystems through strategic contracting. She manages a portfolio of acquisitions focused on ecological restoration, vegetation management, and infrastructure maintenance, ensuring compliance with federal land management priorities. Her work centers on securing specialized services for post-fire rehabilitation, timber stand improvement, and habitat enhancement, with a strong emphasis on environmental compliance and sustainable land use practices. Finney’s contracting activities are instrumental in translating ecological objectives into actionable, on-the-ground operations through competitive and compliant procurement processes. Sheila Finney maintains consistent relationships with a core group of regional forestry contractors, including G E FORESTRY, INC, GREEN HILLS FORESTRY LLC, THREE STRIPES CONTRACTING LLC, and UMPQUA VALLEY FORESTRY, INC. These partnerships reflect a preference for locally rooted, forest-service-experienced vendors capable of executing complex vegetation management and silvicultural operations across rugged terrain. Her contracting approach emphasizes reliability, environmental stewardship, and operational agility, fostering long-term vendor collaboration grounded in performance-based outcomes and adherence to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements. Finney demonstrates an unwavering commitment to small business participation, directing 100% of her procurements to total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This policy reflects a deliberate strategy to empower regional small enterprises with specialized forestry expertise, promoting economic resilience in rural communities while ensuring access to niche capabilities. Her contracting patterns consistently prioritize small businesses over large contractors, reinforcing the agency’s socioeconomic goals and fostering a robust local supply chain for forest management services. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), encompassing contract logging, brush control, fuel reduction, and reforestation services. A secondary but significant focus on NAICS 333914 reflects targeted acquisitions of specialized pumping and irrigation equipment critical to post-fire recovery and habitat restoration. Finney’s technical expertise spans ecological contracting, forest health interventions, and equipment procurement aligned with sustainable land management standards.