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FAIRBANKS - The newest member of the Alaska Board of Game has strong ties to sport hunters.

Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday appointed 45-year-old Teresa Sager-Albaugh of Tok to the board that regulates hunting and trapping.

Sager-Albaugh is a former president of the Alaska Outdoors Council, a federation of outdoors' clubs and the official state association of the National Rifle Association.

Palin appointed Sager-Albaugh to the board one year ago but she withdrew her name from consideration.

The board would have been without an Alaska Native since it was created in 1975.

After Sager-Albaugh withdrew, Palin appointed Craig Fleener of Fort Yukon, who has since been named director of the state Division of Subsistence.