“Within 12 years we’d pretty much achieved the main objectives, I think.” Forty-six years on, Salmon has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the environment. Martin De Ruyter/Stuff Salmon says one of his proudest achievements is “having encouraged the environment movement, and primary sector organisations into a collaborative governance approach to things”. Over the last half a century he has held various positions as a policy advisor to successive governments and the boards of Crown entities, and membership of the Advisory Group on Green Growth and the Land and Water Forum.