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Cloud Ridge Naturalists 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 betterinformed conservation stewardsnot just snapshot sojourners of our changing world.