Money Trail: A $99.6 million Forest Service contract action went to Peachtree Lumber Company on October 6

What the record shows

The transaction is listed in USAspending as a definitive contract with an action date of October 6, 2026. The awarding agency is the Department of Agriculture, and the awarding sub agency is the Forest Service. The federal action obligation recorded for the transaction is $99,575,262.00.

The award description names the project as the Buck Helene fuels reduction IRSC. IRSC stands for Integrated Resource Stewardship Contract, a Forest Service tool that combines timber removal with land management work such as reducing built up fuels that raise wildfire risk. The description states that $87,804,491.92 in timber value was applied, lists a total dollar value applied of $87,836,891.92, and gives a performance period for the awarded items running to September 13, 2028.

Stewardship contracts of this kind are one of the larger obligation types in the Forest Service budget in a given week, because a single multi year project is recorded as one transaction on its action date. The figure is an obligation, meaning funds committed under the contract, not a single payment made on October 6.

How it compares

In the October 2 to 8 window, the Department of Agriculture recorded $105,356,483.76 in contract obligations across 426 transactions. The Peachtree Lumber action alone is about 94.5 percent of that total. The next largest Agriculture actions in the window were $5,201,641.56 to KONIAG TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INC for enterprise network services and $2,321,811.90 to BILLINGS FLYING SERVICE LLC under a Forest Service delivery order.

Across all departments in the same window, the Peachtree Lumber action ranks second in size. The largest was a $900,485,186.84 delivery order to TRIWEST HEALTHCARE ALLIANCE CORP from the Department of Veterans Affairs on October 7, covered by The Daily Ledger on October 9. Department of Defense contract data is largely absent from the USAspending feed for this period, a reporting gap flagged in the source data, so department rankings for the week exclude meaningful Defense figures.

Data vintage: USAspending contract transactions with action dates from October 2 to 8, 2026, pulled October 12, 2026.

Sources

1. USAspending.gov award record, $99,575,262 definitive contract to PEACHTREE LUMBER COMPANY, INC: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_12363N27C4000_12C2_-NONE-_-NONE-/

2. U.S. Department of the Treasury, Fiscal Data, Debt to the Penny dataset: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny