By Patric Hedlund, TME

A bill to strip law enforcement officers from the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management payrolls was introduced January 24 by U. S. Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Chaffetz said that county sheriffs should take on the task of patrolling the vast, remote national forest lands throughout…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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The Mountain Communities are surrounded by National Forest lands. A federal hiring freeze has caused organizational challenges.

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