---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 C.F.R. § 261.6"
title: "36"
number: "261.6"
heading: "Timber and other forest products."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/36/261.6"
---

# §261.6. Timber and other forest products.


The following are prohibited:

- (a) Cutting or otherwise damaging any timber, tree, or other forest product, except as authorized by a special-use authorization, timber sale contract, or Federal law or regulation.
- (b) Cutting any standing tree, under permit or timber sale contract, before a Forest Officer has marked it or has otherwise designated it for cutting.
- (c) Removing any timber or other forest product cut under permit or timber sale contract, except to a place designated for scaling, or removing it from that place before it is scaled, measured, counted, or otherwise accounted for by a forest officer.
- (d) Stamping, marking with paint, or otherwise identifying any tree or other forest product in a manner similar to that employed by forest officers to mark or designate a tree or any other forest product for cutting or removal.
- (e) Loading, removing or hauling timber or other forest product acquired under any permit or timber sale contract unless such product is identified as required in such permit or contract.
- (f) Selling or exchanging any timber or other forest product obtained under free use pursuant to [§§ 223.5 through 223.11](/cfr/36/223.5..223.11.md).
- (g) Violating any timber export or substitution restriction in [§§ 223.160 through 223.164](/cfr/36/223.160..223.164.md).
- (h) Removing any timber, tree or other forest product, except as authorized by a special-use authorization, timber sale contract, or Federal law or regulation.
- (i) Violating the Forest Resources Conservation and Shortage Relief Act of 1990 ([16 U.S.C. 620](/usc/16/620.md), et seq.), or its implementing regulations at [36 CFR 223.185-223.203](/cfr/36/223.185-223.203.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[42 FR 2957, Jan. 14, 1977; 42 FR 24739, May 16, 1977, as amended at 49 FR 25450, June 21, 1984; 51 FR 1250, Jan. 10, 1986; 60 FR 46934, Sept. 8, 1995]

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1011(f); 16 U.S.C. 460l-6d, 472, 551, 620(f), 1133(c)-(d)(1), 1246(i).

### Source

Source: 42 FR 2957, Jan. 14, 1977, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[42 FR 2957, Jan. 14, 1977; 42 FR 24739, May 16, 1977, as amended at 49 FR 25450, June 21, 1984; 51 FR 1250, Jan. 10, 1986; 60 FR 46934, Sept. 8, 1995]