Permits

Do You Need a Permit?

When DON'T You Need A Permit?

• When you are gathering limited amounts for personal use of bark, berries, boughs, bryophytes, bulbs, burls, Christmas trees, cones, ferns, forbs, fungi including mushrooms, grasses, mosses, nuts, pine straw, roots, sedges, seeds, transplants, tree sap, and wildflowers. Find out more by checking out Special Forest Products
• When you are building a campfire on National Forest System lands you can collect a reasonable quantity of wood for the campfire without a permit.

When DO You Need A Permit?

• For collecting fuelwood. Find out more by checking out Firewood Permits
• Special Use Permits are required for commercial and non-commercial use of NFS lands, including:
  • Easements for electrical and utility lines,
  • roads to access private property bound by National Forest lands,
  • oil and gas pipelines, wells or holding tanks, etc.
  • Minerals