Alaska joins lawsuit against Park Service water regulations

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
By Staff

FAIRBANKS — The state of Alaska is officially a party to a lawsuit by an Anchorage man who is challenging the National Park Service’s authority to regulate activities on state-owned waters within national parks and preserves in Alaska.

U.S. District Court Judge H. Russel Holland recognized the state’s interest in a lawsuit by plaintiff John Sturgeon on Tuesday, according to a news release issued this week by Gov. Sean Parnell’s office.

Sturgeon is suing the park service for not allowing him to use a hovercraft to hunt moose on the Yukon and Nation rivers in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve east of Fairbanks.

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