CLOUD RIDGE

Cloud Ridge Naturalists is one of the oldest and most respected nonprofit environmental education programs in North America. In 1979, our inaugural year, the word ecotourism was unknown, and we were pioneers in providing travel opportunities that blended natural history education with exploration. For the past 40 years, our field discovery seminars have taken us to some of the most spectacular wilderness areas on Earth. Moving beyond the "last great place" model that drives traditional ecotourism, our educational efforts over the decades enabled several thousand participants to become better-informed conservation stewards-not just "snapshot" sojourners of our changing world. Given the environmental challenges looming on the horizon, we have chosen to curtail our touring program in order to reduce our overall "travel footprint" and the unavoidable impacts of tourism on fragile ecosystems... Cloud Ridge Publishing (CRP) was launched in 2009 as the nonprofit book publishing arm of Cloud..

Also known as: Cloud Ridge Naturalists

Primary location: Ward Colorado