Bureau of Land Management
BLM Christmas tree permits 65 offices in 12 states, 2026
The Bureau of Land Management sells Christmas tree permits too, from offices in Alaska and twelve Western states. The trees can be different: Ely, in Nevada, allows only pinyon pine, juniper and white fir. A BLM permit is "only valid on BLM-managed public lands," and a Forest Service permit is no good on BLM land, so buy from whoever manages the ground you'll stand on.
From BLM's online forest products permit store, BLM Ely District announcement (Oct 1, 2026), BLM Wyoming's Christmas trees page (2025 season) and BLM Wyoming news release (Nov 19, 2021, archived), read Nov 11, 2026.
Offices by state
65 BLM offices list a 2026 Christmas tree permit in BLM's store. 50 more field offices list none there; some of them sell at the counter, so call the office near you. A price reads "on the permit page" until a person has checked the office's own page.
From Recreation.gov and BLM's permit store, as the finder read them, read Nov 12, 2026.
Colorado
- BLM Colorado River Valley Field OfficeSales open Nov 17Nov 17 to Dec 24cutting daysOn the permit page
Oregon
- BLM Ashland Field Office - Medford DistrictOn sale nowNov 12 to Dec 25cutting daysOn the permit page
- BLM Butte Falls Field Office - Medford DistrictOn sale nowNov 12 to Dec 25cutting daysOn the permit page
- BLM Grants Pass Field Office - Medford DistrictOn sale nowNov 12 to Dec 25cutting daysOn the permit page
- BLM Klamath Falls Field Office - Lakeview DistrictOn sale nowNov 1 to Dec 25cutting daysOn the permit page
- BLM South River Field Office - Roseburg DistrictOn sale nowNov 11 to Dec 25cutting daysOn the permit page
- BLM Swiftwater Field Office - Roseburg DistrictOn sale nowNov 11 to Dec 25cutting daysOn the permit page
Washington
- BLM Wenatchee Field Office - Spokane DistrictOn sale nowNov 1 to Dec 25cutting daysOn the permit page
How BLM is different
Its own store. BLM sells online at forestproducts.blm.gov, not Recreation.gov, for its offices in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. You pay through Pay.gov by card or checking account.
From BLM's online forest products permit store, read Nov 11, 2026.
Print it. You download, save and print the permit; Bishop's office says the store emails a copy too. Field offices also sell in person, and Tonopah will mail one if you call (allow a week).
From BLM's online forest products permit store, BLM Bishop and Tonopah announcement (Nov 21, 2025) and BLM Wyoming's Christmas trees page (2025 season), read Nov 11, 2026.
Usually $5 a tree. Bishop, Ely and the Oregon and Washington offices listed $5. Last winter's $1 tree was a one-season deal that ended Jan. 31; Ely's 2026 notice says "$5 each with a limit of 10 per purchaser."
From BLM Bishop and Tonopah announcement (Nov 21, 2025), BLM Ely District announcement (Oct 1, 2026), BLM Oregon and Washington's Christmas trees page (no year shown) and Interior Department news release (Dec 5, 2025), read Nov 11, 2026.
Limits vary by office. Three per household at Lakeview, Roseburg, Spokane and Vale, five at Medford and on a Bishop permit, ten per buyer at Ely.
From BLM Oregon and Washington's Christmas trees page (no year shown), BLM Bishop and Tonopah announcement (Nov 21, 2025) and BLM Ely District announcement (Oct 1, 2026), read Nov 11, 2026.
Species can be set. Ely allows only pinyon pine, juniper and white fir.
From BLM Ely District announcement (Oct 1, 2026), read Nov 11, 2026.
No refunds. "All purchases are final and no refunds will be given."
From BLM's online forest products permit store and BLM Ely District announcement (Oct 1, 2026), read Nov 11, 2026.
The rules on BLM land
Stay out of wilderness and wilderness study areas, and out of the areas of critical environmental concern an office names (Ely names five).
From BLM Ely District announcement (Oct 1, 2026) and BLM Wyoming news release (Nov 19, 2021, archived), read Nov 11, 2026.
Cut low and take the whole tree. Klamath Falls: cut "below the lowest live limb," leave a stump under 6 inches, and "Do not top trees."
From BLM Klamath Falls news release (Nov 16, 2023, archived), read Nov 11, 2026.
Hunting season is often open. Wear bright colors, and stay with your group and your vehicle if the weather turns.
From BLM Wyoming's Christmas trees page (2025 season) and BLM Klamath Falls news release (Nov 16, 2023, archived), read Nov 11, 2026.
Go early in the season. Snow closes the roads as winter comes on.
From BLM Wyoming's Christmas trees page (2025 season) and BLM Klamath Falls news release (Nov 16, 2023, archived), read Nov 11, 2026.
Everything else, from measuring to tying it on the roof, is the same as on a forest. How to cut your own tree has the day, step by step.
From BLM Klamath Falls news release (Nov 16, 2023, archived) and AAA, "Safely Transporting a Real Christmas Tree" (Dec 2019), read Nov 11, 2026.
Written by More Than Just Parks from the agencies' own pages, read Nov 11, 2026. The permit you buy, and the map and rules printed on it, govern. Not a permit, not the agency.