As the first general manager of the province's Land Commission, Runka played a pivotal role in developing the Agricultural Land Reserve. After two years of archival processing, Runka’s extensive work in the field of land use planning and natural resource management is now available to researchers at the Northern BC Archives and Special Collections. After serving as Chair of the Agricultural Land Commission from 1975 to 1979, Runka went on to establish his own consulting firm. Over the next 33 years, GG Runka Land Sense Ltd. served over 681 clients, including governments, universities, corporations, community groups, businesses and private individuals. However, Runka never wavered from his support for the ALR. At his untimely death in 2013, he was working in opposition to the Site C dam project due to the loss of over 5,000 hectares of high capability agricultural land. All of this work is now available to researchers through Northern BC Archives and Special Collections, including documents and materials spanning three library bays, a massive photographic slide collection and more than 500 maps.
Read our full feature article about the G. Gary Runka fonds in UNBC Stories.
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