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Boy Scout Conservation Efforts

Description: Photograph of Roger Beecham, left, and C.C. Wheeler, III; Boy Scouts stocking Boy Scout Camp lake at Dripping Springs with fish. The pond was cleaned out by the use of rotenone under the supervision of the State Fish and Game Service prior to stocking. [OK-ID no. crossed out: 1169-9].
Date: Autumn 1954
Creator: Ottinger, A. P.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Site 19, Barnitz Creek Sheepsfoot Roller

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man on a Sheepsfoot roller compacting fill material during construction of core trench and embankment at Barnitz Creek Site 19. Three UNIDENTIFED people stand off to the left side of the trench. A fourth UNIDENTIIFED person is sitting on a tractor on the left side of the trench. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Sheepsfoot roller providing ground-bearing pressures of 200 pounds per square inch used in compacting fill material during construction of core trench… more
Date: April 24, 1954
Creator: Ritchey, Leonard
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Flooded Washita River near Stafford

Description: Photograph of an aerial shot of a flooded Washita River. Note the house, road, and a few building affected by the rising and falling waters. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Washita River, north of Stafford, Okla., at 6:00 p. m. on April 30, 1954. Note barn in background surrounded by water.”
Date: April 30, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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