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Sugar Creek Watershed

Description: Photograph of diversion terrace constructed as part of the critical gully treatment on area 205, Sugar Creek Watershed of the Washita River. First of a series.
Date: January 19, 1961
Creator: Wall, R. N.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lake Humphries Dam Fertilizer Application

Description: Photograph of recent inspections of floodwater retarding structure in upper segment of Wildhorse. It was decided that the dam and spillways of existing structures owned by the city of Duncan need an application of fertilizer. In picture is city employee spreading 44% of nitrate on bermuda grass sods.
Date: April 19, 1961
Creator: Cummins, Pat
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Great Plains Conservation Program

Description: Photograph of the Great Plains Conservation Program [ 1957 - 1996]. Willis Sorrells, Great Plains technician, Soil Conservation Service [SCS], Clinton, Oklahoma, explains the Great Plains contract with Mr. AND Mrs. Dale Robinson, who sign an application for participation in the program. OK-1615-1.
Date: January 19, 1962
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Organic Matter and Soil Fertility

Description: Photograph of Lowell Caskey and Walter Hart discussing organic matter and soil fertility. This field has had a crop of vetch in rotation every year since 1936, the oldest vetch planting in the country.
Date: September 19, 1960
Creator: Lowe, Sam D.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Site of the First Shelterbelt

Description: Photograph of the site of the first Shelterbelt in the United States. A Shelterbelt is a a line of trees or shrubs planted to protect an area, especially a farm field, from strong winds and the erosion they cause.
Date: October 19, 1961
Creator: Frie, Jimmie W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of irrigated cotton. Cotton irrigated with water stored in Site 28, Calvary watershed. Small siphon tubes are used because of short runs. Bob Wright, watershed Conservationist, is in the picture. OK-1443-9.
Date: September 19, 1961
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of flood prevention at Cane Creek, Site # 22, near Boynton, OK. Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Seivert are shown the extent of the sediment pool on their farm by Virgil Cole, Chairman, Cane Creek Conservancy District and Member of the Muskogee County Soil and Water conservation District [SWCD] Board of Supervisors, and its relation to their cooperative agreement No. 2609. Seivert signed the first easement secured for this watershed. OK-1479-11.
Date: October 19, 1961
Creator: Castle, Ernest L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of Flood prevention. Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Seivert signing the first easement for the Cane Creek Watershed. Virgil Cole, Chairman of the Cane Creek Conservancy District and Board Member of Muskogee County, Soil & Water Conservation District [SWCD], looks on. This easement was the first one secured for work on this watershed. Seivert’s District agreement No, 2609 for their 320 acre farm was signed on June 28, 1955. This is for Site # 22. OK-1479-8. PHOTO IS MISSING.
Date: October 19, 1961
Creator: Castle, Ernest L.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Atlantic Variety of Alfalfa

Description: Photograph of an excellent stand of Atlantic variety alfalfa after 4th cutting, 2 years after planting on Stillwell silt loam, 0-1% slopes. In foreground is Lloyd Martin, Supt. Of the Station.
Date: October 19, 1961
Creator: Warth, Peter
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

First Bid Letting for Quartermaster Creek Sites

Description: Photograph of a group of people attending the bid opening. Right Table: clockwise, C. E. May, American Marietta Co. , Okla. City; Kenneth Richardson, Contractor, Clinton; Bob Allen, Contractor, Cordell; Marshall Greenman, Sales Rep. , Boardman Eq. Co. , Okla. City; Mr. Hagar, Conoco Sales Rep. , Okla. City; R. A. Lotspeich, Contractor, Laverne; Bob Selman, Contractor, Selman; Nuel Hurtick, Adm. Serv. Div. , Washington DC; Jim Corser, SCS, Stillwater; Doc Herron, Robertson Steel Co. , Okla. City… more
Date: January 19, 1961
Creator: Richie, Leonard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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