How this works

79 national forests list a 2026 Christmas tree permit on Recreation.gov, and 65 Bureau of Land Management offices list one in BLM's permit store. We read both on Nov 12, 2026 and print what they say: the dates, the price, the limit and the rules, each with its source. Sale times are in each place's own time zone. Recreation.gov prints them in Eastern, and we convert. A permit is the agency's to sell, and the rules on it are the agency's. We quote them and link them. We don't sell permits, and nothing here is one.

2 forests have pages on Recreation.gov with no permit type named and no dates on them. We print what the page says and no date. 53 more Forest Service units and 50 BLM field offices don't list a permit in either store. We say "not posted yet" for those, never "no program": some sell at the office and never post one online. Distances are straight lines to a forest's boundary, not to the cutting area and not by road. The forest's own map shows where you can cut. How we read the agencies · Not a permit, not the agency

Read from the agencies Nov 12, 2026

Idaho Christmas tree permits 17 places have a permit online

10 national forests and 7 BLM offices in Idaho list a 2026 Christmas tree permit online, and 9 sell one today. Of the prices printed here, the lowest is $5, at 5 places. Sawtooth National Forest opens next: Nov 13, 8 a.m. Mountain. 11 of them publish their own cutting-area maps.

Bitterroot National ForestOn sale nowNov 14 to Dec 31cutting days$5 per tree
Boise National ForestOn sale nowNov 18 to Dec 25cutting days$10 per tree
Caribou-Targhee National ForestOn sale nowOct 8 to Dec 31cutting days$15 per tree
Idaho Panhandle National ForestOn sale nowOct 10 to Dec 31cutting days$5 per tree
Kootenai National ForestOn sale nowOct 8 to Dec 31cutting days$5 per tree
Nez Perce Clearwater National ForestOn sale nowOct 13 to Dec 31cutting days$5 per tree
Payette National ForestOn sale nowNov 23 to Dec 31cutting days$10 per tree
Salmon-Challis National ForestOn sale nowOct 12 to Dec 31cutting daysOn the permit pageRecreation.gov's records disagree
Wallowa-Whitman National ForestOn sale nowNov 12 to Dec 31cutting days$5 per tree
Sawtooth National ForestSales open Nov 13, 8 a.m. MountainNov 13 to Dec 31cutting days$10 per tree
BLM Four Rivers Field OfficeSales open Nov 15Nov 15 to Dec 25cutting daysOn the permit page
BLM Owyhee Field OfficeSales open Nov 15Nov 15 to Dec 25cutting daysOn the permit page
BLM Shoshone Field OfficeSales open Nov 15Nov 15 to Dec 25cutting daysOn the permit page
BLM Coeur D'Alene Field OfficeSales open Nov 15Nov 15 to Dec 25cutting daysOn the permit page
BLM Cottonwood Field OfficeSales open Nov 15Nov 15 to Dec 25cutting daysOn the permit page
BLM Pocatello Field OfficeSales open Nov 18Nov 18 to Dec 24cutting daysOn the permit page
BLM Upper Snake Field OfficeSales open Nov 18Nov 18 to Dec 23cutting daysOn the permit page

Not posted yet

Curlew National GrasslandNot posted yet

Good to know in Idaho

Whitebark pine is a threatened species, and it is illegal to remove or damage one on federal land. The Boise bans cutting it "whether green or dead."
From Federal Register, final rule, 87 FR 76882, Dec. 15, 2022, FWS press release, Dec. 2022 and Boise National Forest on Recreation.gov, read Nov 11, 2026.