These government agencies have more power than they were ever intended to have. I live in a ranch community and we were gathering cows off of the mountain... a FS employee came and tried to tell me i was breaking the law because i wasn't on a trail... (cows don't usually just stay on trails )
Even worse than that.... One night in our own field we had a machine break down, so we were out there with our lights working on it. Two Fish&game officers drove right through our field because they thought we might be poachers. Then we were told that they could do it... and that they actually had more authority than State Police..... kind of screwed up.
one can hope these dips will be some of the federal folks let go with the budget cuts coming...