Please do not cut a large tree over 12 feet high just to.

Please leave your wood cutting area clean.

Firewood Cutting permits may be purchased at your local Forest Service Office. The cost for firewood cutting permits varies per forest. The permit allows you to cut down standing dead or downed timber on National Forest and Bureau of Land Management lands within Montana and Northern Idaho.

Firewood obtained under this permit is intended for personal use only.

On back roads, you are encouraged to cut trees which are growing within the road prism from the top of the cut bank to the bottom of the fill slope of little used roads.

Where to Cut Your Tree. Your permit allows you to cut Christmas trees on the Custer Gallatin National Forest, located within Montana and portions of South Dakota.

This permit allows for gathering personal-use boughs, but no cutting from Hemlock or Cedars. Permits are good Forest-wide, except at cabins, campgrounds, picnic areas, trailheads, wilderness or riparian areas, natural landmarks, timber sales and areas where trees /5.

More information: Timber Permit Information (pdf)Spurgin Road Missoula, MT Your Firewood Permit To cut firewood for personal use on National Forest and BLM lands in Montana and Idaho, you must have a Personal Use Firewood Permit.

Atper cord, you can purchase a permit for no less than 4 cords (20) and no more than 12 (60). A permit is good for gathering firewood from the time of purchase through March