Lance McCaskill: 
Founder of conservation education at Lincoln College. For many years Lecturer and then Associate Professor in Rural Education, extending into ail manner of related topics. Member of the National Parks Authority and the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council, Friend of the World Conservation Union (IUCN, First Director of the Tussock Grasslands and Mountain Lanes Institute. Honoured with numerous national and international awards for his work, for nature conservation for nature education in the field, forest, schoolroom and lecture haft. Author, activator and source of inspiration for good deeds for nature and for those who five by its care.