File 2020.4.2.1.51 - "Sharing the Land Resource - 1990 and Beyond" speech by Gary Runka

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"Sharing the Land Resource - 1990 and Beyond" speech by Gary Runka

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2020.4.2.1.51

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  • Nov. 1981 (Creation)

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(2 Aug. 1938 – 26 July 2013)

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(18 September 1945 - present)

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File consists of a speech given by Gary Runka entitled "Sharing the Land Resource - 1990 and Beyond" for Symposium: Local Agriculture, 1990 and Beyond (CNC, FAS-UBC & BCMAF) - November 28,1981.

Commentary on this speech by Barry Smith of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands:
"This speech starts by looking at land philosophically and states (p. 2): "We sometimes need to be reminded that we are borrowing the land resource from the next generation".

The speech includes several important points made with clarity. A few examples include:

  • the need to provide adequate linkages and lines of communication between agencies and different levels of government;
  • while understanding the land is prerequisite to its wise and proper use - we still have incomplete and small scale inventory work available;
  • nature's laws affirm rather than prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury.... and hangman;
  • do our planning and direct our growth from within the confines of natural systems to take advantage of their attributes and avoid their negative aspects; and
  • we need to not only understand land and water ecosystems but the people complex as well - and a great deal of patience and interdisciplinary compromise is needed.

A number of issues are reviewed:

  1. The agricultural - forestry interface
  2. Urban dreams meet rural realities
  3. The challenge of educating an increasingly urbanized population
  4. Escalating energy costs
  5. The competition for water"

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    Personal or academic use of materials is welcomed under the standard fair use and educational use clauses of Canadian Copyright Law. Commercial use is, however, forbidden without the express permission of the copyright holder. For information on obtaining written permission from the copyright holder, please contact the Northern B.C. Archives and Special Collections.

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    Source: Barry Smith, ed. "Binder 1 - Archival Material - British Columbia's Farmland Preservation Program: G. Gary Runka Collection - Speeches", 2015.

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