'”61-year-old David Balharry took on the position of CEO of the John Muir Trust, Scotland’s Wild Places charity in January 2020. CEO of the John Muir Trust, David Balharry (Image: John Muir Trust)“It's good that all that is in the past,” Balharry says. And one of the things that he did when he was with the John Muir Trust is to really anchor a lot of his thinking in quotes from John Muir. Holly on the John Muir Trust land at Quinag (Image: John Muir Trust)JMT has also recently raised concerns about plans for up to 65 turbines in the Monadhliath Mountains. If we don’t protect wild places, there soon won’t be any wild places left."

Source: The Herald December 21, 2025 13:32 UTC