This story does not suprise me. My fiancee’ is from out west. He told me he has had run ins with USFS rangers himself while out hunting. He despises them. He says they think they personally own the forests and he even had one ranger tell him that it was his forest and he could do anything he wanted. But on that day my fiancee’ was holding a 30-30 and was really in no mood for it so the ranger backed down and left. They will come up and try to tell you that you can’t hunt in an area that is clearly legal to hunt in.
The unstated goal of the National Forest Service is to close down all of the “public” lands to the public. They don’t want you hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, riding an ATV or anything else on “their land”.
The sovereign states are finally waking up and they are going to have to at some point just kick the Feds out. Thank God for the sheriff’s.
Several years ago I read an article which made reference to the closing of mountain roads and trails in Germany during the 1930s. In that case the authorities wanted to make sure people couldn’t ‘bug out’ to the hills when TSHTF.
The more things change the more they stay the same - right?