Sierra Club John Muir Award
- For similarly named awards, see John Muir Award (disambiguation)
The Sierra Club John Muir Award is awarded annually by the Sierra Club. It is the club's highest award. According to the Sierra Club, "it honors a distinguished record of leadership in national conservation causes, such as continuing John Muir's work of preservation and establishment of parks and wildernesses."
Recipients
Source: Sierra Club awards page
- 1961 William Edward Colby
- 1962 Olaus Murie
- 1963 Ansel Adams
- 1964 Walter A. Starr
- 1965 Francis P. Farquhar
- 1966 Harold C. Bradley
- 1967 Sigurd F. Olson
- 1969 Henry M. Jackson
- 1970 George Marshall
- 1971 John P. Saylor
- 1972 Edgar Wayburn
- 1973 Richard M. Leonard
- 1974 John B. Oakes
- 1975 William O. Douglas[1]
- 1976 Jacques Cousteau
- 1977 David R. Brower
- 1978 Phillip Berry
- 1979 J. Michael McCloskey
- 1980 Paul Ehrlich
- 1981 Brock Evans
- 1982 Wallace Stegner
- 1983 Margaret E. Murie
- 1984 Brant Calkin
- 1985 Denis A. Hayes
- 1986 Horace M. Albright[2]
- 1987 John A. McComb
- 1988 John Seiberling
- 1989 Paul Brooks
- 1991 Celia Hunter
- 1992 James C. Catlin
- 1993 Martin Litton
- 1994 William E. Siri
- 1995 Joseph B. Fontaine
- 1996 Elden Hughes
- 1997 Doug Scott
- 1998 Jim Dodson
- 1999 Judy Anderson
- 2000 Carla Cloer
- 2001 Gaylord Nelson
- 2002 James Jeffords
- 2003 Vivian Newman
- 2004 Vicky Hoover
- 2005 Howard Booth
- 2006 Larry Melhalf
- 2007 Al Gore[3]
- 2008 James E. Hansen
- 2009 Greg Haegele
- 2010 Dick Fiddler
- 2011 Bill McKibben
- 2012 Donald Parks
- 2013 Robert D. Bullard[4]
- 2014 Terry Tempest Williams
See also
References
- ↑ "Judge gets award". The Deseret News. June 7, 1975.
- ↑ "Receives John Muir Award". Merced Sun-Star. May 9, 1986.
- ↑ "Gore to Receive Sierra Club's Highest Award". Environment News Service. September 24, 2007.
- ↑ Mock, Brentin. (2013, September 24). "Robert Bullard, pioneer in environmental justice, is honored by the Sierra Club," WashingtonPost.com. Accessed: September 25, 2013.
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