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AMA MEMBER SURVEY 2003
It Is now over 5 years since the AMA last conducted a survey of Its members. Surveys are vital to inform the Committee, who do their work in your name, of your wishes and views. It is important that we learn these points of view, good and bad. so that we can continue to steer the AMA in the direction that you want.
The results of this survey will be compared with those from 5 years ago to see if its members are changing direction; but it is also much wider this time, and will collect much more information that will tell us how to improve.
Please take the time, no more than 10 minutes, to complete the following survey and return it to me (address below). I welcome all of your thoughts, good, bad or indif­ ferent, and any criticism is useful. Whilst I cannot promise to action every point, if there is a groundswell of opinion in a particular area, you can rest assured that the President, Chairman and Committee will take note.
You are more than welcome to submit a return anonymously if you wish. However, to encourage replies, three equipment voucher prizes has been secured from our regular sponsors. The winner will be drawn from all those who respond and include their membership number. Obviously, to win this, we need to know who you are!
The closing date for replies is the end of October 2003, and results will be known in the New Year.
Please do take the time to let us know what you think. Take this opportunity to influence the direction of your Association. I look forward to seeing your views.
Schiehallion Update
In last summer’s issue we told how the John Muir Trust bought East Schiehallion in Perthshire - one of Scotland's most popular mountains. This popularity had led to the path to the summit becoming a boggy scar. The Trust set out to fix the problem by creating a new. narrow path on firmer ground and then to revegetate the old path so that it disappeared from view.
W e’re delighted to report that since autumn last year volunteers and con­ tractors have worked hard on the new path and by October over 3km will be completed - from the car park to the main ridge. Next year we will do low-key path work on the ridge and begin to revegetate the old path. Unlike many hillwalking paths, which just emerge from constant use and make a beeline up the hill, this new path has been carefully planned to have a consistent gradient and low impact on the environ­ ment.
Butterflies and Bin Bags
Volunteers have been busy on the Trust’s Ben Nevis Estate this year. Tasks have varied from surveying the rare mountain ringlet butterflies, to carrying off sacks of litter from the summit.
For Sale
We have just launched a new range of stunning cards, reproduced from landscape paintings by David Wilson of
Fort William. These, along with the new illustrated diary 2004 and our Christmas cards and books are available online at www.jmt.org
Run in the London Marathon
Once again the Trust has a few guar­ anteed places in the London Marathon 2004 (18 April). If you’d like to run for the Trust please contact Katie Jackson, 0131 554 0114 or promotions@jmt.org
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John Muir Trust News
Volunteers building a bridge lor the Schiehallion path. Photo by Alison McGachy
Looking lor mountain ringlet butterflies on Ben Nevis (with Schiehallion about to be netted). Photo by Will Boyd-Wallis
8/a Bheinn Irom a painting by David Wilson
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