[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 36CFR261.6]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
          CHAPTER II--FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 261--PROHIBITIONS--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart A--General Prohibitions
 
Sec. 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 Secs. 223.5 through 223.11.
    (g) Violating any timber export or substitution restriction in 
Secs. 223.160 through 223.164.
    (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, et seq.), or its implementing regulations at 
36 CFR 223.185-223.203.

[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]