The John Muir Trust
The John Muir Trust is the UK’s leading wild land conservation charity. The Trust owns and safeguards eight iconic areas of wild land including parts of Ben Nevis, the Red Cuillin in Skye, Schiehallion, Quinag and Sandwood Bay. The Trust works closely with the communities on its own land and with the community bodies that own and manage land in Knoydart, North Harris and Assynt. For more information go to www.jmt.org.
| Stories about the Work of the John Muir Trust | The John Muir Award The John Muir Trust encourages people to experience wild places and to ‘put something back’ through the John Muir Award. For more information go to www.johnmuiraward.org. |
| John Muir The Trust takes its name from John Muir, the Scot who founded the modern conservation movement. Born in 1838 in Dunbar, East Lothian, John Muir emigrated as a child to America. He went on to find fame as a botanist, geologist, mountaineer and pioneer of what is now called ecology. During his explorations of the high Sierra and Alaska, Muir became aware of the threats to wild places and successfully campaigned for the establishment of National Parks to safeguard vast tracts of wild lands such as Yosemite Valley in California. | |