http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/18/1385683/-Wyoming-can-now-put-you-in-jail-for-sharing-nature-photos-with-the-government?detail=email
This shot is actually illegal to take according to new bill.
You can face a $5000.00 fine and up to a year in prison if you share your nature photography with the government, according to a new Wyoming law. The Wyoming Senate just signed Bill 12: Trespassing to collect data (or Date Trespassing Bill). Ostensibly a private property/trespassing law, Bill 12 is incredibly wide-reaching:
The new law is of breathtaking scope. It makes it a crime to “collect resource data” from any “open land,” meaning any land outside of a city or town, whether it’s federal, state, or privately owned. The statute defines the word collect as any method to “preserve information in any form,” including taking a “photograph” so long as the person gathering that information intends to submit it to a federal or state agency. In other words, if you discover an environmental disaster in Wyoming, even one that poses an imminent threat to public health, you’re obliged, according to this law, to keep it to yourself.
As ThinkProgress points out:
“We are deeply concerned that this poorly written and overly vague bill will prevent concerned citizens and students from undertaking valuable research projects on public lands, out of fear of accidentally running afoul of the new law (the scope of which no one clearly understands) and being criminally and civilly prosecuted,” Connie Wilbert, organizing representative for the Sierra Club’s Wyoming chapter, told ThinkProgress. “There is no need for this new bill, and we can only conclude that it is an attempt by private landowners to scare people away from valid research efforts on public land.”
One of the most troubling components of the law, according to Pidot, is that it specifically targets data collected to be shared with the government, a focus he calls “anomalous, bizarre, and radical.” Under the statute, a citizen who uncovers an environmental disaster or public health threat — unless they’ve obtained specific permission from the landowner before collecting that data — would themselves be breaking the law by reporting it to the authorities.
this from the party that rails against gov't taking away their freedoms to pollute poison the air this is no more than a counter measure to criminalize those who would expose the sheer idiocy of the law is what gives them away i would encourage voters to not allow republicans in office in 2016 laws like these are just perquisites to deregulation and those agencies in place to protect us from "THEM" investigate Wyoming and places like them, especially where Koch and other factories are before America screws up and votes or not and let republican voter suppression and gerrymandering steal another election.
they don't want you to see what their freedoms are doing to the earth.
