BOZEMAN, Montana — MercuryCSC, a Bozeman-based selling communications agency, has been named a 16th best place to work in a U.S. in Outside Magazine’s 4th annual workplace issue.

Outside’s “Best Places to Work” emanate highlights employers that are environment a new customary for healthy work-life balance. The list was gathered with a assistance of a Outdoor Industry Association and Best Companies Group. The year-long ranking routine evaluated companies with during slightest 15 employees. Staff during nominated companies submitted trusted worker remuneration surveys, while judges looked during any company’s benefits, compensation, policies, pursuit satisfaction, environmental initiatives, and village overdo programs. (more…)

Children in a Wilderness Program Seeks to Bridge a Gap Between Communities and Wildlife

Seattle, WA – Zegrahm Eco Expeditions, an journey transport company, has partnered with Children in a Wilderness to teach girl in Africa on environmental charge and life skills.  The six-day forest safari camps hosts farming children between a ages of 8-16 from 7 South African countries.  Children are interconnected with park guides, who teach on a significance of charge and deliver a girl to a beauty and farrago of a healthy environment.

“Each year Zegrahm Expeditions has done it a tradition to present to an classification that does free work in a segment a expeditions revisit or to a means nearby and dear to a hearts,” settled Jon Nicholson, President of Zegrahm Expeditions.  “I am gratified to unite a Children in a Wilderness stay as a appreciate we to a constant travelers, transport advisors, and friends for their continued support.”

Zegrahm Field Director Jonathan Rossouw and photographer/videographer Giovanna Fasanelli, were means to take partial in a Zegrahm sponsored stay in Zambia in June.  The span participated in a activities (more…)

Moab Adventure Center Announces Record Attendance and Fundraising At 5th Annual Raft for a Cure Benefiting a Susan G. Komen Foundation. The entrance fees, pledges and contributions have been counted and Utah’s Moab Adventure Center  announced a 2011 Raft for a Cure eventuality hold Jun 25 in Moab, Utah pennyless all prior annals for fundraising and attendance. The summer eventuality captivated over 385 participants, adult from only over 300 in 2010 and generated some-more than $25,000 for a Susan G. Komen Foundation. (more…)

On Jun 28th, scarcely 50 professionals – including non- and for-profit voluntourism operators, media, consultants and deputy from a ecotourism village – collected in Denver, CO to plead a state of a voluntourism industry, a stream hurdles and opportunities, and to open discourse around increasing joint and team-work as a specialized transport niche. Organizer Alexia Nestoria, Founder and Director of Lasso Communications and author of a blog Voluntourismgal.com, pronounced that while there has been small attention classification in a active U.S. and U.K. voluntourism populations, (more…)

By Nicole Petrak, Assistant Editor to AdventureTravelNews and Special Projects for a Adventure Travel Trade Association

Neil Rogers is both a Director of Marketing for Francis Ford Coppola Resorts and a tolerable tourism dilettante consulting on a far-reaching operation of tellurian projects. Neil has been operative with experiential transport and tolerable tourism for a final 25-years. He fell in adore with Latin America on a post-University 18-month overland train outing from Mexico City to Tierra del Fuego and behind to Caracas. Working as a debate beam for a subsequent 5 years he explored a remotest corners of a continent and shortly graduated to a position of tours manager of Journey Latin America in London. (more…)

REI Awards $4.2 Million to Nonprofit Partners that Restore Outdoor Spaces

Seattle – REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.), a inhabitant outside rigging and wardrobe retailer, currently announced skeleton to extend $4.2 million this year to nonprofits opposite a nation that work to safety and say healthy spaces by active proffer programs.

“At REI, we inspire a members and business who suffer a outdoor to play an active purpose in holding caring of those places,” pronounced Kevin Hagen, executive of corporate amicable shortcoming for REI. “We are respected to partner with hundreds of dedicated nonprofit organizations that share a identical goal and whose programs concede us to (more…)

Mountain Khakis, a heading mountain-inspired lifestyle attire brand, announces their partnership with shotfarm as an picture government apparatus for MK retailers. (more…)