Victor Lyons

Victor Lyons serves as a key procurement lead within the Stewardship Contracting Branch of the U.S. Forest Service, overseeing the execution of landscape-scale stewardship contracts designed to advance ecological restoration and wildfire risk reduction. His work centers on integrating timber harvesting with watershed protection, road maintenance, and habitat improvement initiatives, ensuring that forest management activities align with the agency’s mission of sustainable resource stewardship. He manages complex, multi-objective acquisitions under the Stewardship Contracting authority, often combining goods and services into performance-based contracts that prioritize long-term ecosystem outcomes over isolated commodity sales. Lyons maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of experienced contractors specializing in forest operations, including Brink Brothers Inc., Peak Engineering LLC, Miller Timber Services, Inc., AZ Hammer Down, LLC, and Dennis Kirby. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with proven expertise in mechanical thinning, logging operations, and ecological restoration services. His procurement approach emphasizes reliability, technical competence, and demonstrated capacity to execute multi-year, landscape-level projects under challenging field conditions. Lyons does not utilize socioeconomic set-asides; all procurements are conducted as full and open competitions. This reflects a strategic focus on selecting the most qualified contractors based on technical capability and operational readiness rather than socioeconomic criteria, enabling the agency to rapidly mobilize resources for time-sensitive forest health projects. His procurement activity is exclusively focused on NAICS 113310 (Logging), underscoring a deep specialization in forest harvesting and associated silvicultural services. He procures equipment-intensive, labor-heavy operations including fuel reduction, biomass removal, and timber sales tied directly to ecological restoration goals, demonstrating expertise in the technical and regulatory nuances of federal forest contracting under the National Environmental Policy Act and multiple-use mandates.