Justices Limit National Park Service’s Authority Over Public Land In Alaska Units

Mealey's (March 26, 2019, 12:08 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Alaska’s Nation River is not public land under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) and is exempt, as is all other nonpublic land in the state’s national parks, from the usual regulatory authority of the National Park Service (NPS), a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court held March 26 (John Sturgeon v. Bert Frost, et al., No. 17-949, U.S. Sup., 2019 U.S. LEXIS 2294)....