Allowed
Monongahela National Forest
West Virginia, Pocahontas·Foraging
Digging ramps needs no permit on the Monongahela, but personal use stops at two gallons per person — roughly 180 plants. Selling any of them is prohibited.
- No permit for personal use. The forest's own permits page puts gathering a reasonable amount of edible material — mushrooms, ramps and the like — for your own consumption among the activities that require no paperwork.
- Personal use has a hard ceiling: two gallons per person in possession at any one time, which the Forest Service puts at roughly 180 whole plants, roots and leaves included. That is about what fills a plastic grocery bag.