Firm pays $255K fine after prosecutors say it ran unauthorized gravel pit on BLM land for 19 years

MESA COUNTY, Colo. - A company has paid a $255,000 fine after federal prosecutors accused it of removing and selling about 153,429 tons of sand and gravel taken from public land in western Colorado without authorization from the Bureau of Land Management. Merial I. Currier and Currier Gravel Pit Inc. denies trespassing and had filed an appeal challenging whether the 9-acre gravel mining pit was on BLM land, said Jeff Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S Attorney's Office. The firm agreed to the monetary settlement without admitting any wrongdoing. However, prosecutors say the gravel company operated the 9-acre mining pit on public land in Mesa County for 19 years until 2010...more

It took the BLM 19 years to discover this?  Somebody get them some maps.  They don't know their boundaries in Colo., don't know where WSAs are in Nevada...