AWA Opposes Board of Game Nominee

TERESA SAGER-ALBAUGH, Palin's New Pick for the Alaska Board of Game, is an Extremist Who Won't Bring Experience or Balance to this Already Biased Board

Teresa Sager-Albaugh, Governor Palin's latest appointee to the Board of Game, just participated in her first Board meeting - and her voting record shows just how far she is willing to go to be a key player in Palin's escalating war on Alaska's wolves and bears.

The Alaska legislature is scheduled to vote on Sager-Albaugh's nomination to the Board within the next few days.

We are doing everything in our power to block Sager-Albaugh's confirmation but we need your help to do it. Contact your state senator and representative now and urge them to vote against this ill-conceived nomination.

Sager-Albaugh voted to allow controversial practices that are unprecedented in Alaska's 50-year history. She clearly expressed her ideological extremism at her first Board of Game meeting.

Examples of her extreme ideology include the following.

Sager-Albaugh voted to:

• Allow predator control in Denali State Park.
• Allow citizens who participate in predator control programs to use helicopters to support the killing of wolves and bears.
• Permit "agents of the state" to use poison gas bombs to kill wolf pups in the den and put snares in and around wolf dens.
• Let Alaskans and out-of-state residents snare bears - even sows and cubs - using bait to lure them to their death. Children as young as 10 years old may participate in the snaring.
• Allow the killing of more than 800 bears and selling of their fur for profit. This would encourage poaching and the illegal sale of bear parts.
• Give licenced hunters the go-ahead to use planes to spot, then land and shoot, brown bears - including sows and cubs.
• Extend the wolf hunting season to include the time when mothers are nursing newborn pups.
• Expand "predator control" programs in two new areas of the state - an increase of 33%.

Sager-Albaugh's voting record isn't showing us anything new: she has a long history of anti-wildlife extremism. After serving as president of the Alaska Outdoor Council from 2005-2007, she continues to keep close ties to this radical special interest group that has been behind many of the state's most outrageous anti-wildlife regulations.

Palin and her hand-picked cronies on the Board of Game want to turn Alaska into a game farm for out-of-state trophy hunters. Is this the Alaska you want to see?

Alaska's Board of Game should reflect the broad diversity of the Alaskan people, not just the extreme interests of a narrow few. Tell our state legislators that Alaskans won't stand by and let Sarah Palin and her Board of Game turn our state into a game farm.

Take action now to make your voice heard and demand justice for Alaska's wildlife.

Please contact your state senator and representative now and urge them to vote against the nomination of Teresa Sager-Albaugh to the Board of Game.

Please forward this e-mail to those you know who might be interested.

Thank you for speaking out in support of Alaska's wildlife,