Alaska moose-hunter can 'rev up' his hovercraft, Supreme Court rules
The court limited the National Park Service's authority to enforce laws and regulations on state-owned rivers in Alaska. Justices rejected the agency's argument that the river was"public land" for regulatory authority and that the agency's water rights interest gave it rule-making authority.
"We reverse the decision below and wish Sturgeon good hunting," Justice Elena Kagan said in reading a summary of the decision. Sturgeon could not be reached for comment Tuesday. Sturgeon for 40 years hunted moose along the Nation River, a waterway within the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve in northeast Alaska. In 2007, he was using a hovercraft, a loud, blower-powered amphibious vehicle that can navigate in shallow water or even mud.
Sturgeon sued in 2011. After lower courts rejected his arguments, the Supreme Court in 2016 said the 1980 law had carved out numerous Alaska-specific exceptions to the Park Service's general authority over federally managed preserves, such as snowmobile and airplane travel between villages.
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