Two people carry a freshly cut fir out of a snowy national forest, a black dog running ahead of them

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How this works

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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

Christmas tree permit 2026 · BLM office · Idaho

Cottonwood Field Office

BLM's permit store opens sales November 15. It lists cutting from November 15 to December 25.

Cottonwood

That's the whole area the office manages, not where the trees are. Open the map.

Sales open
Nov 15
Cutting
Nov 15 to Dec 25
Price
On the permit page
Limit
3 treesper permit

From BLM's permit store, read Nov 12, 2026

The office's files

BLM's permit store doesn't print rules text for this permit. They're in the stipulations file, listed here.