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File consists of maps of the Pacific Great Eastern (PGE) and BC Rail (BCR) trackage in British Columbia, which consist of photocopy reproductions and hand drawn works by Davies. Includes maps of PGE/BCR track in various B.C. cities (Fort St. John, Chetwynd, Dawson Creek, Squamish, 100 Mile House, Lillooet, Fort Nelson, Williams Lake, West Vancouver, Quesnel); maps of PGE/BCR track at various times (1973, 1986); and maps of the Dease Lake extension.

File consists of selected personal records from Dr. Joselito Arocena's digital media. Includes 3 floppies and migrated data from hard drives.

File consists of a speech given by Gary Runka entitled "Action Steps to Sustainable Agriculture" at the Forum on Sustainable Agriculture in Summerland.

Commentary on this speech by Barry Smith of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands:
"This speech opens with a relatively broad discussion of sustainability- how defined - and how this relates to agriculture. "We've got to develop the ability to view farming in a conceptual sense, to view food production sustainability over the full horizon, including the urban world, as well as farm field."

The speech is broken into 3 sections with sub-sections:
(1) From a Practical Management Point of View. What Does "Sustainability" Mean on the Farm, Orchard or Ranch? Several points are made including the protection of land through the ALR. The principles of sustainability in, "Towards a Strategy for Sustainability" are listed.
(2) From the Food Producers Perspective, What are the Gaps in Practical Requirements to move Toward Sustainability? The points identified in the July 1994 workshop "Future of Agriculture in the Okanagan" are listed and noted as key points.
(3) With Land and Water Resources under Stress, What are the Action Steps to Regional Multicommodity Agricultural Sustainability? Under this topic seven sub-topics are explored:
a) sustainability and security of the land base with a particular emphasis on parcel size and the need for consolidation, land tenure, cost and speculation;
b) sustainability and water resources;
c) land use competition, compatibility, and planning process access - with an emphasis placed on the need for the farm community to have access to the planning process and a nod to the importance of Agricultural Advisory Committees. It is recognized that this will take an integrated effort of the ALC and Municipal Affairs;
d) vertically consistent policies and regulations from local to federal;
e) Right to Farm (with a plea to revisit the then current 'Agricultural Protection Act');
f) public education;
g) food policy; and
h) Socio-economic strategy for agriculture"

File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 148.

File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 149.

File consists of a speech given by Gary Runka entitled "Landscape Level Planning - Fitting People into the Watershed" at the Stewarding Our Watersheds Conference.

Commentary on this speech by Barry Smith of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands:
"The first half of this speech takes a very broad sweep in defining landscape units and the provincial planning system. In the second section "Entering the People Use Maze", the paper focuses more locally on the Salmon River watershed and discusses the findings of a survey associated with the Langley Rural Plan.

The survey results demonstrated that for both rural and non-rural residents in Langley, 'the country atmosphere' was why they had chosen to live in Langley. Residents also disagreed with the statement that it was unpleasant to live in an agriculture area.

The third section - "Techniques of Integrating Balanced, Sustainable People Use" into the Watershed" considers eight tools that will assist achieving "landscape level" planning, one of which is the ALC Act.

Besides these direct references to agriculture, country atmosphere and ALC Act; the Langley Rural Plan drew heavily on the survey that GGR refers to and the Plan, which was largely comprised of agricultural lands, was inspirational in the development of the Commission of work "Planning for Agriculture".

File contains diagrams and maps of cutblocks from Northwood Pulp and Timber Limited.

File contains colour aerial photography of the Aleza Lake Research Forest from 1994.

File contains ecosystem treatment data sheets from Northwood Pulp and Timber Limited.

File contains reports on soil rehabilitation project and related correspondence, photocopied tables of soil measurements, and photocopied pages of ledgers with diagrams and notes.

File consists of a speech given by Gary Runka entitled "Consensus Decision Making" for an Executive Development Program.

File consists of a single slide depicting people on tour at the McGregot Model Forest.

File contains the following data sets:

• Archie Site Tree Data.xls [diameter (dbh) and basal area of trees within and overhanging plots]
• Archie Site non-woody forest floor properties (1995).xls [non-woody forest floor chemical properties – individual sample results & plot means]
• Archie Site woody forest floor component properties (1995).xls [total C, N & S concentrations, pool sizes for woody forest floor components]
• Archie Site mineral soil properties (1995).xlsx [0-20 cm mineral soil chemical properties – individual sample results & plot means]
• Archie Site forest floor mass (1995).xlsx [mass per unit area of non-woody & woody forest floor components, corrected to oven-dry basis]
• S221FINL.xls [MoF lab data report: non-woody forest floor components]
• S222FINL.xls [MoF lab data report: woody forest floor components]
• S251FINL.xls [MoF lab data report: 0-20 cm mineral soil]

File contains maps, working plans, and related correspondence.

This 3.5" floppy contains the following EP 1148 .TXT data sets from 1995-1997:

• sbsapc.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-Boreal Spruce" Intact soil cores
• sbsbd.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-Boreal Spruce" Bulk density mineral soil 0-20cm
• sbsffc.txt "Long-term Soil Productivity Study, Sub-boreal Spruce" SBS forest floor bulk density and mass3
• sbsfc.txt "Long-term Soil Productivity Study, Sub-boreal spruce" SBS forest floor chemistry
• sbsmc.txt "Long-term Soil Productivity Study, Sub-boreal Spruce sites" SBS mineral soil chemistry
• sbskgff.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-boreal spruce zone" SBS forest floor nutrient mass in kg/ha
• sbskgmm.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-boreal spruce" SBS mineral nutrient mass in kg/ha
• sbsom.txt "Long-term Soil Productivity Study, SBS" "SBS bole-only treatment, slash levels"
• sbscr.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-boreal spruce zone" Timber cruise of initial stands
• sbshtcr.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, SBS" Age vs height curves - pretreatment data (mature stand)
• sbssi.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-Boreal Spruce zone" Carmean estimates of site indices for initial stand
• sbstr.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-Boreal Spruce" Tree measurements

File contains correspondence and diagrams regarding potential harvesting of spruce beetle killed trees from Northwood Pulp and Timber Limited.

File contains correspondence relating to project funding and reports on the significance of the project.

File contains 1996 charts of permanent sample plot remeasurements.

Data sets associated with the Arocena & Sanborn 1999 regional soil mineralogy study:

• S234FINL.XLS [data report for mineral horizons from MoF Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, June 20 1996]
• S235FINL.XLS [data report for organic horizons from MoF Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, June 20 1996]
• SAMPLIST.XLS [conversion table for sample numbers used in MoF lab data reports]
• Fe Al extractions.xlsx [assembled from lab data report by L. Arocena for oxalate & dithionite extractions; pyrophosphate extraction data from MoF lab]
• MINSTUDY.XLS [consolidated lab data for organic & mineral horizons, except for BaCl2 exchangeable cations]
• MINCEC.XLS [BaCl2 exchangeable cations & Morgan’s extraction for organic & mineral horizons]

File contains reports on soil rehabilitation projects and related correspondence, photocopied tables of soil measurements, and reports on machinery costs when tilling.

File contains a brochure, a 1993 solid waste management plan, a 1996 Forest Practices policy handbook, and a 1996 draft of the Prince George Land and Resource Management Plan.

File contains correspondence regarding lack of funding for research projects between the Science Council of British Columbia and Mike Jull, Prince George Forest Region.

File contains the following data sets:

• S300FINL.XLS [Ministry of Forests lab data report: non-woody forest floor components]
• S301FINL.XLS [Ministry of Forests lab data report: woody forest floor components]
• 660FF97.xls [non-woody and woody forest floor components: mass / unit area (corrected to oven-dry basis)]
• BUCKLIST.xls [table showing internal sample numbers corresponding to lab sample numbers used in MoF lab reports]

File consists of a speech given by Gary Runka entitled "BC Land Use Issues and Smiling Frogs" for the Agricultural Institute of Canada Foundation.

Commentary on this speech by Barry Smith of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands:
"This presentation, which was accompanied by slides (not with speaking notes) reviews five diverse land use issues of which three involve agriculture, two of which were directly linked to the ALC.

The 'Smiling Frogs' metaphor is wonderfully explained as the heat is turned up and down on land use issues and complacency is something to be avoided.

GGR was directly involved in some capacity with each of the issues reviewed and, therefore is in a position to provide an "insiders" point of view. The five issues were:

1. Burnaby Business Park (Burnaby Big Bend) - Lower Mainland - a very succinct overview is provided for this win-win accomplishment which directly involved ALC decision-making.
2. Charlotte-Alplands (West Chilcotin) - involved an exploration of forest, recreation and wilderness tourism opportunities and the identification of potential conflicts.
3. Fraser River Delta (Delta Farmland and Wildlife Trust) - considers the successful coming together of agricultural and wildlife interests in an area that has both internationally significant wildlife habitat and an important part of the Pacific Flyway but also comprises one of the best agricultural areas in Canada.
4. Mid-Coast (Greenpeace and Western Forest Products) - provides insights into a very hot issue that had some success and some failure in trying to get two very opposed sides together in which the Land and Coastal Resource Management Planning process is struggling.
5. Six Mile Ranch (Kamloops) - every so often the ALC is faced with what might be referred to as an application of province wide notoriety and Six Mile Ranch assuredly fit this description. The application involved a proposal in the Kamloops area (but some distance from Kamloops) to use an area of interior grasslands ALR for urban development in the form of residential, resort and golf course. GGR sums up his feelings nicely on this land issue - "My involvement in this fiasco is indirect and that of "Citizen Runka" and perhaps more specifically as a student of government stupidity."

File consists of the following materials:

• Letter to Vernon C. Brink from the National Archives of Canada re: Knox McCusker holdings (March 1, 1999)
• Photocopy of article: "Living Landscapes: Exploring the wilds of northeaster BC" by Ross Peck and Brian Apland
• Some materials for an article on Knox McCusker, D.L.S.
• Material about the life of Knox Freeman McCusker
• Letter to Mrs. Rutherford (Oct. 5, 1999) re: access to interview of Knox McCusker by Frank Willis
• Accession information print-out re: interview of Knox McCusker by Frank Willis in 1954
• National Archives of Canada accession information print-out re: Dominion Land Surveyor Diaries, 1881-1930
• Mary Henry / Knox McCusker "Team" (April 19, 1998)
• Letter to Mrs. Rutherford from George Ungar re: background information on Knox McCusker

File contains minutes from Aleza Lake Steering Committee meetings, proposals to assume management of the Aleza Lake Research Forest, research project outlines and timelines, budget summaries, photocopies of management and working plans for 1992 to 2002, and related correspondence between the Steering Committee.

File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 45.

File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 112.

File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 106.

File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 107.

File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 291.

File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 50.

File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 113.

File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 118.

File contains information, including measurement charts and a map, from experimental plot 150.

File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 103.

File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 119.

File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 115.

File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 116.

File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 117.

File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 292.

File consists of photocopied maps of Island Cache (Cottonwood Island) and Prince George.

File consists of photocopies of 1960s records from the City of Prince George related to Island Cache that were organized by researchers involved with the Island Cache Recovery Project. Includes an Urban Renewal Report and municipal memoranda.

File contains original tables for soil measurements, a related photocopied draft report, and related photocopied handwritten notes.

File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with Earl Lousier and Harry Gairns.

File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with the Perry Family.

File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with Jack Boudreau. Also includes photocopies of Jack Boudreau's personal records, such as the Diary of Ada (Adelia) Sykes.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Jack Boudreau. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and one copy.

File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with Ivan Andersen.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Barb Harkins. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and one copy.