Personal-Use Firewood Permits on Sale From Mendocino National Forest

This is a press release from the Mendocino National Forest:

To cut firewood for personal use on National Forest System lands you must have a personal use firewood permit.

The Mendocino National Forest will be selling personal-use firewood permits beginning April 23.

The permit costs $2.00 per cord with a minimum purchase required of $20 for 10 cords. The maximum number of cords that can be purchased is 12 cords per household. Permits are valid through December 31, 2026.

Visitors can purchase a permit at Forest Service district offices in Willows, Stonyford, Upper Lake or Covelo, CA.

Forest staff are working to have year-round and online firewood permit sales, and details about those options will be shared with customers later in the year.

It is illegal to remove firewood from the forest without a valid permit. All firewood removed from the forest must be dead and already on the ground. The maximum length for a piece of wood to be removed is 6 feet.

Firewood collected within Lake and Mendocino counties is subject to state and federal quarantines to limit the spread of the sudden oak death pathogen. Firewood taken from these counties can only be transported into other sudden oak death quarantined counties, including Alameda, Contra Costa, Humboldt, Marin, Monterrey, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma and Trinity.

More information may be requested through Laura Leidner at [email protected].

For more information about the Mendocino National Forest, visit https://www.fs.usda.gov/r05/mendocino.