BISMARCK: The Army Corps of Engineers’ plan to close a Dakota Access pipeline protest camp that’s been around for more than six months isn’t likely to be the demise of on-the-ground opposition in North Dakota. Wednesday’s deadline for the protesters to leave also may not spell the end of the heavy law enforcement presence near where the Dallas-based developer is finishing the last big section of the pipeline, which will carry oil from North Dakota through the Dakotas and Iowa to a shipping point in Illinois. The protest camp is on federal land in southern North Dakota between the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and the pipeline route. It has at times housed thousands of people, though it’s dwindled to just a couple of hundred as the pipeline battle has largely moved into the courts. The Corps has told those who remain in the Oceti Sakowin camp that they need to leave by 2 p.m. Wednesday. Gov. Doug Burgum listed the same time and date in an emergency evacuation order last week. Morton County sheriff’s spokeswoman Maxine Herr warned that there could be large-scale arrests at the camp, while insisting that is not want authorities want. Though law enforcement and state officials have said they won’t forcibly evict protesters, they have cited the coming threat of spring flooding as a safety issue that requires the camp to be cleared. “We prefer to handle this in a more diplomatic, understanding way,” Herr said, adding that a transition center will be set up to help protesters who don’t have a place to go. Some protesters plan to move, but some are ready to go to jail and “will engage in peaceful, civil resistance … holding hands, standing in prayer,” said American Indian activist Chase Iron Eyes. Morton County sheriff’s deputies can arrest people who won’t leave.