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Series consists of works written or collected by G. Gary Runka.

The 2020.4.2.1 Speeches sub-series includes manuscripts of speeches written by G. Gary Runka.

The 2020.4.2.2 G. Gary Runka Writing sub-series includes publications, manuscripts, and drafts of worked written, co-written, or edited by G. Gary Runka over the course of his career.

The 2020.4.2.3 Collected Works sub-series includes works collected by G. Gary Runka. Runka collected a comprehensive resource library of publications, reports, and rare grey literature that reflected the depth and breadth of natural resource issues in British Columbia. Material from this resource library was intrinsically tied to Runka's work; selected unique items from the resource library are contained within this sub-series to contextualize the scope of land management issues.

Subseries includes works collected by G. Gary Runka. Runka collected a comprehensive resource library of publications, reports, and rare grey literature that reflected the depth and breadth of natural resource issues in British Columbia. Material from this resource library was intrinsically tied to Runka's work; selected unique items from the resource library are contained within this sub-series to contextualize the scope of land management issues.

Item is an original typescript of a BC Department of Agriculture report entitled "Factors that Contribute to Successful and Profitable Bulb Culture".

Item is a photocopied reprint of Tisdale's "The Grasslands of the Southern Interior of British Columbia" in the Ecology journal, Vol. 28 No. 4.

Item is an original reprint of an article by G.S. Andrews entitled "Air Survey and Photogrammetry in British Columbia" from the March 1948 issue of Photogrammetric Engineering journal.

Item is a copy of "Soil Productivity and the Potential Food Supply of the United States: An Address before the Academy of Political Science at the Annual meeting on Food" by Bradfield, R.

Series consists of records relating to G. Gary Runka's personal life, including academic records, personal resume, and posthumous materials. Also includes Runka's personal correspondence during his time with the Agricultural Land Commission and memorabilia from his curling activities.

File consists of a 1953 North Peace High School yearbook.

File consists of a 1955 North Peace High School yearbook.

File consists of G. Gary Runka's high school records.

File consists of two Peace River District High School Curling Championship patches.

Gary Runka was a hobbyist photographer and documented his work and personal life through photography as he travelled across every region of British Columbia. His photographs document the evolution of British Columbia communities and regions over a 30 year period. Gary Runka's core interest was land and changing land uses. Many of his photographs tell a story of urban edge and/or natural resource compatibility/conflict. There are also a substantial number of photographs related to soils, including soil profiles, soil erosion and land (topography, drainage etc.) capability for agriculture. The collection also includes specific client-related photos, tied to Land Sense Ltd. client file job numbers.

The collection also documents personal travels and hiking trips throughout British Columbia and backpacking in some historic areas, such as the West Coast Trail and Cape Scott. These photographs also represent land evolution over time, including extent of alpine glaciation or biodiversity/plant species inhabiting the area.

File consists of a 1957 North Peace High School yearbook.

Item is an original BC Department of Agriculture publication, compiled by the Co-ordinating Committee on Agriculture for Central British Columbia, entitled "Agricultural Recommendations for Central British Columbia".

Item is an original National Research Council Canada Technical Memorandum 44 entitled "Guide to Field Description of Muskeg".

Item is a photocopied version of "Soil Survey of the North Okanagan Valley" Interim Report by P.N. Sprout & C.C. Kelley for the BC Department of Agriculture.

Item is a 1960 Modern Land Policy journal reprint of an article by Howard Conklin entitled "Principles of Land Classification".

File consists of G. Gary Runka's UBC academic records.

Subseries consists of publications, manuscripts, and drafts of worked written, co-written, or edited by G. Gary Runka over the course of his career. Also includes conference proceedings that contain contributions by G. Gary Runka.

Item is a 1961 Land Economics journal reprint of an article by D.S. Lacate entitled "Review of Landtype Classification and Mapping" (Vol. XXXVII, No. 3.).

Item is an original Canada Department of Agriculture Publication 1147 entitled "Seeding Forest Ranges in the Dry Belt of British Columbia".

Item is an original reprint from Canadian Fisheries Annual 1963 by Dr. J.L. Kask (Fisheries Research Board of Canada) entitled "Fisheries in the Year 2000".

Item is an original Canada Department of Agriculture Publication 1179 entitled "Suitability for Irrigation of Water from Lakes and Streams in the Southern Interior of British Columbia".

Item is a copy of "Scheduling of Irrigation" by Brownlee, C.H. and J.C. Wilcox.

Item is a draft typescript of "Field Party Report on Land Capability Studies British Columbia" by D.S. Lacate, J.W.C. Arlidge, M.J. Floate, E. Mackintosh, P.N. Sprout, and G. Runka (B.C. Department of Agriculture).

Item is an original Canada Department of Agriculture Publication 1190 entitled "Climate and Agriculture in Central British Columbia".

Item is an original typescript entitled "Water Delivery by an Irrigation District" by J.C. Wilcox and C.H. Brownlee.

Series consists of maps, technical drawings, and other oversize material collected by Gary Runka that are not associated with specific Land Sense Ltd. client jobs.

Item is an original Canada Department of Agriculture Publication 1224 entitled "Climate of the Upper Peace River Region".

Item is a copy of "American Wilderness: A Unique Conservation Concept" Background Fact Sheet.

File consists of Gary Runka's business and identification cards.

Item is a copy of the "North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA)" presentation to Cornell University Water Resources Center, Ithaca, New York by Roland P. Kelly, Edward R. Trapnell, and Ralph M. Parsons Company.

File consists of G. Gary Runka's Cornell University academic records.

File consists of academic papers written by Gary Runka during his 1966-1967 Master of Science in Natural Resource Management and Land Use Planning at Cornell University, New York.

Item is a photocopied journal reprint from Queen's Quarterly entitled "Public Management and Mismanagement of Natural Resources in Canada" from Vol. 73, No. 1, Spring 1966, pp. 86-99.

Item is a 1967 published lecture by Dr. C.F. Bentley entitled "Food for All: Can Agriculture Provide?" for the Agricultural Institute of Canada Centennial Lecture in Quebec.

File consists of papers written by G. Gary Runka during his role as BC Land Inventory Field Coordinator. Selected works include:

• "Comments on General Soil Characteristics related to B.C. Industrial Zoning Maps",
• "Ektachrome Infra-red and Ektachrome Aerial Photography Project - Pitt Meadows",
• "A Short Course on Mapping Forest Lands Sept. 21-23, 1972, Prince George, Glacial Landforms and Surficial Materials",
• "Soil Stability Ratings - South Okanagan", "East Kootenay Soil Capability for Agriculture - Agriculture Sector Review - Report to B.C. Intersector Evaluation Committee",
• "Bulkley Intersector Analysis Area - Section I: Agriculture Sector Report - Report to B.C. Intersector Analysis Committee",
• "Dryland and Irrigated Agriculture Capability Ratings - Sept. 1, 1971",
• "Report on Land Capability for Agriculture and Forestry Prince George - Quesnel, Special Sale Area, B.C.",
• "East Kootenay (Region 13) Soil Capability for Agriculture and the Intersector Evaluation",
• "Tentative Correlation of Soils of British Columbia with Climatic Criteria", and,
• "Urban Suitability vs Resource Conservation an Interpretation of British Columbia Land Inventory Data, 14 May, 1973".

Item is an original 1967 comic book published by the Soil Conservation Society of America entitled "Food and the Land: The Role of Soil and Water Conservation in the World Food Crisis".

Item is a typescript draft of a report written by M.J. Romaine entitled "Region No. 13 East Kootenay - Soil Capability for Forestry Report to B.C. Intersector Evaluation Committee".

Item is an original Canada Department of Agriculture Publication 1319 entitled "Grassland Ranges in the Southern Interior of British Columbia".

Series consists of records created and collected by Gary Runka during and after his time with the British Columbia Agricultural Land Commission. In the early 1970s, Runka served as the first general manager of the BC Agricultural Land Commission, the independent provincial body that has administered BC's Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) for over 40 years. As the first manager, Runka spearheaded the establishment of the ALR undertaking the technical tasks of setting ALR agricultural use boundaries, policies and procedures, as well as the building awareness and support for farmland preservation within government and with the public. He later served as Commission chair. Records include correspondence, informational material, publications, clippings, news releases, memoranda, symposium/conference material, reports, speech notes, and other textual material. Also includes seven maps, two buttons, six floppies, eighty slides, and one audio cassette tape.

Item is an original bound copy of "Use and Management of Land on Valley Train Deposits", Gary Runka's 1968 thesis presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University for the Degree of Master of Science.

Item is a reproduced typescript of a paper prepared for the 1968 annual meeting of the Association of BC Foresters in Kamloops by Dr. Peter Pearse. The paper is entitled "Principles for Allocating Wildland Among Alternative Uses".