Sheriff has no jurisdiction on federal lands. Although some agreements and cooperation do exist between agencies when it comes to law enforcement, but that's not a rule.
It is commonplace. I doubt there is a National Forest anywhere west of the Mississippi that has only Federal law enforcement.
Ft. Jones, CA (February 26, 2007) - Shawn D. Woodman, a 31-year-old Klamath National Forest employee, lost his life on Thursday evening, February 22, in a car accident. Shawn was driving on Scott River Road when, for unknown reasons, the car left the roadway. A Siskiyou County Road Department employee saw tire tracks going off the road on Friday morning. Later that day, the Siskiyou County Sheriff dive team extracted his body from the vehicle in Scott River.
The Sheriff's Department is investigating the accident.
MOUNT MCLOUGHLIN — Officials have called off a search for a missing Beaverton man who apparently traveled last weekend to Southern Oregon for a hiking trip and has not been heard from since.
The hunt for John V. Zazzara, 54, was suspended late Friday,
Klamath County Sheriff Tim Evinger said in a news release.
"It is very difficult to make the decision to scale back any search before a missing person has been found," Evinger said. "In this instance, little is known about (Zazzara’s) intended whereabouts and how he was prepared for his outing. In this case, time and conditions were not in our favor."
Not unless feds hired them to do that.
A quote from the 2008 OREGON BIG GAME REGULATIONS
www.dfw.
state.or.us
Hunt #134 - Upper Deschutes Unit - One buck with visible antler - Oct. 4 - Oct. 15
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/resources/hunting/big_game/regulations/2008gamewebnoads.pdfThe Upper Deschutes unit is almost entirely federally owned land.
If I take a doe, I am in trouble with State authorities.
The point is, to take the largest and richest landowner off the property tax roles is a burden that western sparsly populated areas bare more than densly populated areas. To send tax money to these sparsly populated areas is a way for the feds to pay the local governments tax money that they would normally get if the land were in private hands.
That Alaska gets a big per capita share of federal money is saying two things: not many people live there and the federal government is the owner of the majority of Alaska, and therefore has the majority of responsibility.
