GOCO Board

Great Outdoors Colorado Board members are appointed by the Governor and subject to confirmation by the Colorado State Senate. The structure of the 17-member board is designed to provide representation to the entire state based on population.

	▪	Two members from each of Colorado’s seven congressional districts serve.
	▪	The executive director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources and
	▪	A representative from the Colorado Board of Parks and Outdoor Recreation and from
	▪	The wildlife Commission are members.
	▪	No two members from one congressional district can be from the same political party.
	▪	One member of the Board must represent agricultural interests.
	▪	Two members must live west of the Continental Divide.

Congressional District 1 Peggy Montano (D) Denver pmontano@goco.org	Congressional District 4 State Senator Ken Kester (R) Las Animas kkester@goco.org	Congressional District 7 Norma Anderson (R) Lakewood nanderson@goco.org

James Smith (U) Denver jsmith@goco.org	Philip James (U) Fort Collins pjames@goco.org	James Spaanstra (D) Lakewood jspaanstra@goco.org

Congressional District 2 Christian Meyer (R) Erie cmeyer@goco.org	Congressional District 5 Heather Carroll (D) Colorado Springs hcarroll@goco.org	State Agency Represenatives Harris Sherman Dept. of Natural Resources hsherman@goco.org

Matt Sugar (D) Winter Park msugar@goco.org	Kae Rader (U) Colorado Springs krader@goco.org	Robert Streeter Wildlife Commission rstreeter@goco.org

Congressional District 3 James Lochhead (D) Glenwood Springs jlochhead@goco.org	Congressional District 6 Timothy Daly (D) Evergreen tdaly@goco.org	James Pribyl State Parks Board jpribyl@goco.org

Karla Shriver (R) Monte Vista kshriver@goco.org	Thomas Swanson (R) Evergreen tswanson@goco.org