S.J. No 0003  Federal forest emergency.

Sponsored by: Senator(s) Geis

A JOINT RESOLUTION regarding a declaration of emergency; declaring a state of emergency in the

watersheds located on the national forests within Wyoming; using the police and contract powers

of the state and applicable federal law to empower the state to take such actions on the national

forests as are necessary to thin the excessive and unjustifiable overgrowth that is impairing critical

watersheds and depriving Wyoming's rivers, streams, aqueducts, reservoirs and aquifers of the water

necessary for the health, safety and welfare of the state's citizens, communities, livestock and wildlife

 including threatened or endangered species and their habitats.

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