At first reading I would stand with Sheriff Tony DeMeo. What is going in here with the Obama Administration? What have the Democrats done to our Constitution?
They're ignoring it and hoping that we don't notice. In for a surprise, they are. </yoda>
It is probably right for them to have law enforcement power when an issue involves legitimate federal interest (the "needful buildings" mentioned in the Constitution), but you'll have a hard time finding anything about wild land protection and such in the Constitution. It is too bad the Western states allowed the federal government ownership and control over so much of their land to begin with. I suppose the original intent was attractive, because it was for the purpose of encouraging and promoting economic growth in those states by creating agencies to facilitate the use of the West's natural resources - but what it has become today has the opposite effect.
Most of what it seems they do today is illegitimate. The Western states' governments have matured and it is high time they move to take control of their own affairs and that would include the public land, whether used for mining, timber, grazing, parks, or nothing at all. I believe that was the original federal intent. Probably the only state that benefits from federal land management today is Alaska, and I'm not even sure about that.