The next week will see the beginning of open season on Christmas trees on federal lands.The Bureau of Land Management began selling tree cutting permits on Thursday and the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest’s Carson Ranger District will start selling permits on Monday. Permits are available until Dec. 24, or until they’ve all been sold. Federal offices are closed on Thanksgiving. BLM permits allow cutting a pion pine or juniper tree on designated lands primarily in the Pinenut Mountains between Carson City and Yerington, the Clan Alpine and Desatoya mountains east of Fallon, and the Excelsior Mountains southeast of Hawthorne. Maps and …