BLM and U.S. Forest Service Restriction of Law Enforcement

WHEREAS, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (U.S.F.S.) currently exercise law enforcement authority; and

WHEREAS, the State of Wyoming contains lands supervised by the BLM and the U.S.F.S.; and

WHEREAS, citizens of the State of Wyoming have elected and empowered County and State law enforcement officials and agencies to exercise such representative law enforcement authority; and

WHEREAS, local, County and State law enforcement personnel are the most familiar with the people, culture, and lands within the State of Wyoming; and

WHEREAS, local, County and State law enforcement personnel and agencies have the capacity to resolve law enforcement issues within their jurisdictions in the most expedient manner and at the lowest level of legal force; and

WHEREAS, the BLM and U.S.F.S. are exercising unrepresentative and unlawful law enforcement authority within the jurisdictions of local, County, and State lands;

BE IT RESOLVED that the Wyoming Republican Party does hereby support legislative action to codify the elimination of law enforcement authority and use of weapons from the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, and limit the exercise of law enforcement authority to local, County and State law enforcement agencies elected by and representative of the citizens of the localities, Counties, and State of Wyoming.

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Wyoming Republican Party, 19 Apr 2024 WYGOP State Convention