Letter: An overreach from the Senate

Dear Editor,

In what would seem an outrageous overreach of power, Senate File No. 12 was passed by our Wyoming legislature and signed into law by Gov. Mead. This file banned citizens from collecting data from ANY Wyoming land outside city limits. In so many words, if you saw cattle destroying creek banks or their manure polluting a mountain stream and/or campground, took a picture of it and submitted that photo to a public agency, you would be subject to prosecution resulting in up to a $5,000 fine and a year in prison! That’s but one example.

This law was so egregious other states noticed and...