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Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of a concentration of field and farmstead windbreaks in the northern portion of the Greer County Soil Conservation District, Oklahoma. This is an unusually good observational area as windbreaks of all types are present. Note the lack of continuity in the single row plantings--a constant characteristic of such belts in limited rainfall zones. OK-79, 501.
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of the community patterns of windbreaks in the northeastern part of the Greer County Soil Conservation District, Oklahoma. Plantings date from 1935 and are being added to each year. This area was formerly treeless, and even along the stream courses, but now—from a distance—it has almost the aspect of a wooded country. Variations in continuity and vigor of the belts is chiefly due to differences in degree of care and protection afforded the plantings—the soils for the most part being … more
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of windbreaks protecting valuable farm land east of the Lake Creek Store in the northeastern part of the Greer County Soil Conservation District. The heavily foliaged windbreak in the lower right-hand corner of the photograph is a partnership planting on the Craig and Wilde farm boundary It was planted in 1935 by the Forest Service. The dark-colored fields are alfalfa—a crop that responds particularly well in seed production when protected from the wind. OK-79, 499.
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of the Dempsey Brothers Farm on extremely sandy soil in the southwestern corner of the Greer County Soil Conservation District, northeast of Blair, Oklahoma. The first plantings were made in 1935 and the pattern gradually enlarged during the ensuing years. Crop land, orchards, vineyards and the farm buildings all lie within the same protecting scheme. The Dempsey Brothers claim great benefits in soil stabilization and increased crop and orchard yields. Their fruit has been saved many… more
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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