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Connecticut is a state of history and heritage, where rivers, forests, fall colors, and Long Island Sound make for a high quality of life.

Connecticut has a great system of state parks and forests where residents and visitors can enjoy camping, fishing, hunting, and boating. Along Long Island Sound, birders visit the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge, named after the nine-term Connecticut Republican congressman who was instrumental in establishing the refuge in 1972. The McKinney refuge provides habitat for numerous species of waterfowl and shorebirds, including the endangered roseate tern, brant, and scoters. More than 280 species of neotropical songbirds use the refuge's Salt Meadow unit.

Connecticut's more recent Republican lawmakers have followed Congressman McKinney's powerful conservation example. Former Congressmen Christopher Shays, who served from 1987 to 2009, Nancy Johnson, who served 12 terms, and Rob Simmons, who served three terms in the House, were conservation champions. Simmons was the first REP member ever elected to Congress. 

Working together, we can conserve Connecticut's beauty and high quality of life, for the pleasure and benefit of future generations.

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