Christmas tree permits now available

As part of a new program the Bureau of Land Management is providing every fourth-grader with a free Christmas tree cutting permit.The Carson City District Bureau of Land Management started issuing Christmas tree cutting permits for the Pine Nuts Monday. The permits allow cutting a piñon pine or juniper tree on designated BLM lands primarily in the Pinenut Mountains between Carson City and Yerington, the Clan Alpine and Desatoya mountains east of Fallon, and the Excelsior Mountains southe