Photograph of John Schieber, combine driver, and Dick Whetsell, Soil Conservation Service range conservationist using a John Deere combine to harvest sideoats grama seeds. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. John Schieber, combine driver, 2. Dick Whetsell, Soil Conservation Service range conservationist. The back of the photograph proclaims, “John Schieber, combine driver, and Dick Whetsell, Soil Conservation Service range conservationist. Note the seed heads of sideoats grama grass in front of the combine. The harvest was done under contract with the Soil Conservation Service.”
The Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society (OCHS) was organized and became a functioning organization in 2018. Partnerships were formalized with the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts (OACD), the Oklahoma Historical Society, the Oklahoma State University Oral History Research Program and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).
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Photograph of John Schieber, combine driver, and Dick Whetsell, Soil Conservation Service range conservationist using a John Deere combine to harvest sideoats grama seeds. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. John Schieber, combine driver, 2. Dick Whetsell, Soil Conservation Service range conservationist. The back of the photograph proclaims, “John Schieber, combine driver, and Dick Whetsell, Soil Conservation Service range conservationist. Note the seed heads of sideoats grama grass in front of the combine. The harvest was done under contract with the Soil Conservation Service.”
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