House Trails Caucus

The mission of the bipartisan House Trails Caucus is to provide a forum for interested Members of Congress to work together for the creation and conservation of our natural landscape and recreation activities through the preservation of trails. They do this through such things as hosting briefings and informational events as well as by being a forum for information sharing between Members, staff, and stakeholders about relevant policies, as well as information about recreational hiking, bicycling, and other trail activities in a Member’s community.

The Caucus’s co-chairs are:

Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-03)
Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE-01)

Two Young Women Relaxing From Hiking and Looking at the View Over TreetopsOther members of the Caucus include:

Julia Brownley (D-CA-26)
Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24)
Peter DeFazio (D-OR-4)
Suzan DelBene (D-WA-1)
Mike Doyle (D-PA-14)
Tom Graves (R-GA-14)
French  Hill (R-AR-2)
Jared Huffman (D-CA-2)
John Larson (D-CT-1)
Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-19)
Alan Lowenthal (D-CA-47)
Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM-3)
Betty McCollum (D-MN-4)
James P. McGovern (D-MA-2)
Jimmy  Panetta (D-CA-20)
Tim Ryan (D-OH-13)
Mike Simpson (R-ID-2)
Mike Thompson (D-CA-5)
Fred Upton (R-MI-6)
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-23)

See your Representative’s name listed there? Be sure to thank them and let them know that trails and hiking are important to you! (If you don’t know who your Representative is, find out here.)

Don’t see your Representative’s name listed? Why not ask them to join the Caucus? It’s easy and your Representative really does enjoy hearing from you. Send them an e-mail (you can include this Dear Colleague Letter ), tell them trails are important to you, and ask them to kindly join the Trails Caucus.

You can find your Representative’s contact info at this House of Representatives webpage by just clicking on his or her name. Be sure to let them know they can join by contacting Kevin Stockert in Rep. Blumenauer’s office at x(5-4811) or Alan Feyerherm in Rep. Fortenberry’s office at x(5-4806). That’s it!