Christmas doesn’t have to be expensive when you can get a tree the traditional way.
Harvesting a tree on Crown land areas is 100 percent acceptable in Alberta, but only if you apply for a Personal Use Forest Products Permit.
The permit is valid for 30 days and allows the holder to harvest:
- 3 Christmas trees
- 5 cubic metres – that is about 3 full-sized half-ton truck boxes of roundwood for building logs, fence post, poles and rails, or
- 5 cubic metres of firewood
The permit can also be used to transplant up to 20 trees.
In 2020, almost 18,000 Alberta families obtained their Christmas tree with a permit; the lawful way.
Find out where you can harvest your own Christmas tree on Crown land areas with a permit on the interactive maps below.
-Erika Rolling, Trending 55 Newsroom
https://www.alberta.ca/assets/documents/af-pufpp-peace-river-south-map.pdf
https://www.alberta.ca/assets/documents/af-pufpp-peace-river-north-map.pdf
