State, Native interests also ride on hovercraft case in Supreme Court

U.S. Supreme Court will hear an Alaska-specific case Wednesday. (Photo: Wikimedia)
The Sturgeon case to be argued in the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday is about hovercraft, and whether the Park Service can ban them from rivers flowing through Alaska’s national parks and preserves. But the case has alarmed a lot of people with no interest in hovercraft, and it splits Alaska Native stakeholders: Some subsistence advocates say a decision for Sturgeon could threaten subsistence