Supreme Court hears case challenging NPS authority

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments Wednesday morning in a case challenging the National Park Service’s authority to ban hovercraft in Alaska’s federal parks and preserves.
The case began in 2007, when park rangers found Anchorage moose hunter John Sturgeon and his boat on a gravel bar in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve.
They told him the Park Service doesn’t allow hovercraft travel.
Sturgeon, backed by briefs from the state of Alaska and many Native corporat