{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"A lawsuit, and a river runs through it","description":"\u201cIt seems to me the Park Service doesn\u2019t have jurisdiction.\u201c\nThose were the last words Justice Antonin Scalia spoke from the\nbench of the U.S. Supreme Court before his death earlier this year.\nThe case involved Alaska. And, indirectly, CIRI.\nThe Sturgeon v. Frost case pitted Alaska moose hunter John\nSturgeon against the National Park Service. It started back in 2007\nwhen Sturgeon was prohibited from using his hovercraft on the\nNation River in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve.\nSturgeon didn\u2019t have anything to do with CIRI and the hovercraft\nincident happened far from CIRI land, but CIRI\u2019s interests became\ninvolved when the potentially precedent-setting decision out of the\nfederal courts, if they had survived, would have authorized the\nNational Park Service, and other agencies, to regulate private\nlands within conservation units.\nThis episode of CIRIosity discusses why CIRI was drawn into the\ncase and what it did to protect future access to its land. To\nlisten to the actual oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court,\nclick\nhere. To read the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision in the Frost\ncase \nclick here.\n","author_name":"CIRIosity","author_url":"http:\/\/www.ciri.com\/ciriosity","html":"