Well if it dose work its going to go from what’s considered a unwarranted search that you agreed to could happen at anytime to mandatory inspections. How many of you you here have actually had usfws or state wildlife officers show up at your door? Minus the California incident!
I have. State and Federal at the same time, shortly after 6:00 am. I invited them in, made coffee and consented to let them search my house. The federal agent was rude, put his hands on my wife, to prevent her from going up the stairs before him. When he lied and falsely accused me of wrong doing, I backed them out of the front door with my finger in their chests. I told them not to come back without a warrant. This was shortly before 'Operation Falcon' broke on the scene and they were obviously trying to include me without cause.
Geoff listed a few instances of state and federal enforcement abuses. There have been many in my 50+ years of falconry but 2 that stand out, here in Wy. The first is the Jason Jones case, where he filed paperwork listing the raptors he was importing form Utah, upon moving to Wyoming. I was told that the falconry contact person at Game and Fish missed the whole second page of birds listed and admitted the fact in an interoffice memo. Jason was criminally charged with illegal possession of all of the raptors he had listed on the second page and only after he was able to present a copy of the memo, in court, were charges dropped. Jason told me that he was called to give testimony in the state House of Reps.. He was present when congressmen grilled and chastised the director of Game and Fish. His was one of two cases influencing the decision to withhold funds at budget time. The second case is Dave Franke. He was federally charged over a paper work filing mistake. The Feds. were pressing him to plead guilty and upon multiple occasions dropped the charges as the trial was about to begin, as in the day of, only to refile them the next day. Just pure harassment. His case dragged on for years.
Jeff,
Northern Black Hills, Wyoming