[ America’s Great Outdoors Congressional Champions ]

Several members of Congress and Senators were honored as America’s Great Outdoors Congressional Champions during Great Outdoors America Week or GO America Week (June 26-June 28, 2012 in Washington DC).

In the heart of Great Outdoors Month, GO America Week brought outdoor enthusiasts from all walks of life — high school students and adults, active members of the military and veterans, conservationists and business leaders, hunters and anglers, bikers and boaters — together to celebrate America’s great outdoors, and ask their elected officials to protect our natural heritage. 

Great Outdoors America Week offered an opportunity for advocates to take direct action on a number of conservation issues, ranging from wilderness and national monument protection to reconnecting inner-city kids to the great outdoors. Great Outdoors America Week serves as another example of the long-standing, bipartisan tradition of conservation in the United States.

America’s Great Outdoors Congressional Champions

Senate

CA
• Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
• Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)

CO
• Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) 
• Senator Mark Udall (D-CO)

CT
• Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT)

ME
• Senator Susan Collins (R-ME)
• Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME)

MT
• Senator Max Baucus (D-MT)
• Senator Jon Tester (D-MT)

NC
• Senator Richard Burr (R-NC)

NH
• Senator Jean Shaheen (D-NH)

NM
• Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)

NV
• Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)

OR
• Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)

RI
• Senator Jack Reed (D-RI)

TN
• Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN)

WA
• Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
• Senator Patty Murray (D-WA)

WV
• Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)

House

AZ
• Representative Raul Grijalva (D-7th/AZ)

CA
• Representative Judy Chu (D-32nd/CA) 
• Representative Sam Farr (D-17th/CA)
• Representative John Garamendi (D-10th/CA)
• Representative Mike Thompson (D-1st/CA)

CO
• Representative Jared Polis (D-2nd/CO)

CT
• Representative Chris Murphy (D-5th/CT)

IL
• Representative Robert Dold (R-10th/IL)

MA
• Representative Edward Markey (D-7th/MA)
• Representative John Olver (D-1st/MA)

MD
• Representative John Sarbanes (D-3rd/MD)

ME
• Representative Mike Michaud (D-2nd/ME)

MI
• Representative Dale Kildee (D-5th/ MI)

MN
• Representative Betty McCollum (D-4th/MN)

NH
• Representative Charles Bass (R-2nd/NH)

NJ
• Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-11th/NJ)
• Representative Frank LoBiondo (R-2nd/NJ)

NM
• Representative Martin Heinrich (D-1st/NM)
• Representative Ben Ray Lujan (D-3rd/NM)

NY
• Representative Nan Hayworth (R-19th/NY)
• Representative Maurice Hinchey (D-22nd/NY)

OH
• Representative Steve LaTourette (R-14th/OH)

OR
• Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-3rd/OR)

PA
• Representative Charlie Dent (R-15th/PA)
• Representative Mike Fitzpatrick (R-8th/PA)

VA
• Representative Jim Moran (D-8th/VA)
• Representative Rob Wittman (R-1st/VA) 

WA
• Representative Norm Dicks (D-6th/WA)
• Representative Rick Larsen (D-2nd/WA)
• Representative Dave Reichert (R-8th/WA)

WI
• Representative Ron Kind (D-3rd/WI)
• Representative Tom Petri (R-6th/WI)

WV
• Representative Nick Rahall (D-3rd/WV)