The John Muir Award is part of the Trust's education programme. The John Muir Award is an environmental award scheme that encourages people to connect with, enjoy, and care for wild places. It offers a progressive structure for learning outdoors.
The Trust occasionally bestows a John Muir Lifetime Achievement Award to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding work relating to the protection and enjoyment of wild land:
- 2000 Tom Weir, mountaineer and broadcaster
- 2004 Adam Watson, ecologist, mountaineer, and author
- 2006 Doug Scott, mountaineer
- 2008 Irvine Butterfield, writer, photographer and mountain enthusiast
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