There should be no surprise the Bureau of Land Management has terminated contracts with sheriff's departments throughout the state to provide law enforcement on BLM lands.
No surprise.
You don't just refuse to provide a service you are being paid to do and then expect the client to not drop you like a brick. Not much more than two months ago, the San Juan sheriff did just that. Activists staged an ATV ride on protected BLM land in Recapture Canyon in southeastern Utah. Although the ride was on land that was closed to such riding, Sheriff Rick Edridge declined to enforce the law. He was there, and indicated his presence was to keep things from getting out of hand. But enforce the law? Eldridge said BLM officers made the law, so let them enforce it.
Well, although news that the BLM has canceled the sheriffs' contracts broke just this week, the story didn't say when the cancelations happened. Maybe it went down before Recapture Canyon. Either way, the BLM is now justified for not wanting the sheriffs to provide its law enforcement.
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