The Sierra Club John Muir Award was awarded annually by the

Sierra Club The Sierra Club is an American environmental organization with chapters in all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico. The club was founded in 1892, in San Francisco, by preservationist John Muir. A product of the Pro ...

. It was 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 John Muir ( ; April 21, 1838December 24, 1914), also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the national park, National Parks", was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologi ...

's work of preservation and establishment of parks and wildernesses." Due to the Sierra Club's re-evaluation's of John Muir legacy in the context of racial justice, the John Muir Award was discontinued in 2020, after which the club's highest award was named the Changemaker of the Year Award starting in 2021.

Recipients of the John Muir Award

Source
Sierra Club awards page
*1961 William Edward Colby *1962 Olaus Murie *1963

Ansel Adams Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his Monochrome photography, black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association ...

*1964 Walter A. Starr *1965 Francis P. Farquhar *1966 Harold C. Bradley *1967 Sigurd F. Olson *1969

Henry M. Jackson Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson (May 31, 1912 – September 1, 1983) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. representative (1941–1953) and U.S. senator (1953–1983) from the state of Washington (state), Washington. A Cold W ...

*1970

George Marshall George Catlett Marshall Jr. (31 December 1880 – 16 October 1959) was an American army officer and statesman. He rose through the United States Army to become Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army under pres ...

*1971 John P. Saylor *1972 Edgar Wayburn *1973 Richard M. Leonard *1974 John B. Oakes *1975

William O. Douglas William Orville Douglas (October 16, 1898January 19, 1980) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 to 1975. Douglas was known for his strong progressive and civil libertari ...

*1976

Jacques Cousteau Jacques-Yves Cousteau, (, also , ; 11 June 191025 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), called the ...

*1977 David R. Brower *1978 Phillip Berry *1979 J. Michael McCloskey *1980

Paul Ehrlich Paul Ehrlich (; 14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology and antimicrobial chemotherapy. Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure fo ...

*1981 Brock Evans *1982

Wallace Stegner Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, writer, environmentalist, and historian. He was often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award ...

*1983 Margaret E. Murie *1984 Brant Calkin *1985 Denis A. Hayes *1986 Horace M. Albright *1987 John A. McComb *1988 John Seiberling *1989 Paul Brooks *1991 Celia Hunter, Ginny Wood *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 Gaylord Anton Nelson (June 4, 1916July 3, 2005) was an American politician from Wisconsin who served as a United States senator and governor. He was a member of the Democratic Party and the founder of Earth Day, which launched a new wave of en ...

*2002

Jim Jeffords James Merrill "Jim" Jeffords (May 11, 1934 – August 18, 2014) was an American lawyer and politician from Vermont who served as a member of the Vermont Senate from 1967 to 1969, Attorney General of Vermont from 1969 to 1973, and later serve ...

*2003 Vivian Newman *2004 Vicky Hoover *2005 Howard Booth *2006 Larry Melhalf *2007

Al Gore Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American former politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He previously served as ...

*2008 James E. Hansen *2009 Greg Haegele *2010 Dick Fiddler *2011

Bill McKibben William Ernest McKibben (born December 8, 1960)"Bill Ernest McKibben." ''Environmental Encyclopedia''. Edited by Deirdre S. Blanchfield. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, December 31, 2017. is a ...

*2012 Donald Parks *2013 Robert D. Bullard *2014

Terry Tempest Williams Terry Tempest Williams (born September 8, 1955) is an American writer, educator, conservationist, and activist. Williams' writing is rooted in the American West and has been significantly influenced by the arid landscape of Utah. Her work foc ...

*2015 ''No award'' *2016 Tom Goldtooth *2017

Jane Goodall Dame Jane Morris Goodall (; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English zoologist, Primatology, primatologist and Anthropology, anthropologist. She is considered the world's foremo ...

*2018

Yvon Chouinard Yvon Chouinard (born November 9, 1938) is an American rock climber, environmentalist, and businessman. His company, Patagonia, sells outdoor products, outerwear, and food. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by '' ...

*2019 Nadia Nazar, Varshini Prakash, Kelsey Juliana, Hernaliz Vazquez Torres, Joseph White Eyes

Recipients of the Changemaker of the Year Award

*2021 Bernadette Demientieff *2022 Winona LaDuke *2023 Justin J. Pearson

References

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External links

Sierra Club awards page
Environmental awards Sierra Club American awards Awards established in 1961

Recipients of the John Muir Award

Recipients of the Changemaker of the Year Award

See also

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