Ellingston v. Lloyd

STOWERS, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

This appeal challenges the efforts of the Alaska Board of Game 1 to control, by regulation, the movement of bison that stray outside the boundaries of two game ranches on Kodiak Island. The Board has statutory authority to determine when a domestic animal becomes "feral," and thus legally characterized as "game." Pursuant to this grant of authority, however, the Board's regulatory definition of a "feral" domestic animal must be reasonable and consistent with its authorizing statute.

The Board amended the first regulation at issue to read: "Under this section,…