Alaska's moose-hunting hovercraft pilot returns to U.S. top court

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

SUPREME COURT NOVEMBER 5, 2018 / 2:34 PM / UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO

Alaska's moose-hunting hovercraft pilot returns to U.S. top court

Lawrence Hurley
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday for a second time wrestled with an Alaska moose hunter’s claim that the federal government overstepped its authority in banning hovercraft on National Park Service land in the northernmost U.S. state.

Hunter John Sturgeon has challenged the U.S. government’s power to prevent him from riding his hovercraft on a river through a federal preserve to reach remote moose-hunting grounds. The case, concerning exemptions given to some Alaska-based waterways from nationwide U.S. regulations, could have bigger implications in other matters, including oil and gas extraction.

During arguments in the case, some of the nine justices questioned the scope of authority that the National Park Service seeks to exercise in Alaska.

Chief Justice John Roberts seemed sympathetic to the hunter, noting the importance of traveling by waterways in the state.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. These greedy, amoral monsters imagine everything as far as they can see,

or can travel to see on their 3 wheelers, or hovercrafts, or snowmobiles, trucks, you name it is their property and no one can tell them to let it live in peace.

They take the song, "This land is your land" literally, except for the first part, "This Land is Your Land." It's all about "This land is my land."

Nothing but murderous greed has destroyed over 60% of the world's animals, birds, fish, etc.

There has to be a solution, and the one I consider the finest is also illegal. As an alternative, dropping nets over them, throwing them into a pit sounds more than fair.



John Sturgeon, making a life of demanding the right to be the greediest, most ignorant, cruel, thoughtless man on earth.



Sack of #### John Sturgeous, after killing another innocent being in its only home.



John Sturgeous, convincing people at the Alaska Senate Resources Committee that he, and his drooling friends, don't pleasure
don't pleasure themselves after tormenting then murdering helpless, innocent, loving creatures who have no where to hide from them.

[littlemissmartypants]

2. Leave the moose alone, dammit!

Thanks for the post, Eugene. Most interesting. One to watch.

♡ lmsp

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. This man has wasted taxpayers dollars repeatedly

in his never-ending blood lust quest to kill anything he wants. He has consistently misused the court system to advocate for blood sport. I am so sick of these people I could spit nails. There is no longer any reason for ordinary people to engage in killing nature's creatures.

Fuck John Sturgeon. He's a disease.

[NickB79]

4. Well, if you want to see forests cleared and prairies plowed under

Nothing would get that accomplished faster than killing off sport hunting.

Take away the financial value and political clout that sport hunting gives to land, and the farmers in lower 48 would clear it in a heartbeat for more corn and soy.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

5. Excuse me,

We're talking about National Park Service Land here, not open prairies or uninhabited, saleable forest land. NATIONAL PARKS. It should never be legal to murder Nature's creatures in a national or state park.