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[Photograph 2012.201.B01005.0330]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Nestled among the pines in Cabin Area 3 is a $14,860 duplex cabin, newest addition to cabin facilities at Beavers Bend state park, near Broken Bow."
Date: April 28, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of hardwood control. Quintas Herron, owner, and C. P. Durk [?], Soil Conservation Service, examine pine trees released by deadening culled hardwood trees with a basal injection of 2-4-5T herbicide in December, 1954. Planting an acre of pine seedlings costs about $8.00 per acre where controlling hardwoods to release young pine costs about $4.00 per acre. Natural reproduction of pine produces more trees per acre to be cut as poles, posts and pulpwood than plantings. OK-414-3.
Date: November 28, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Conservation, Management and Utilization

Description: Photograph of forestry lumber. A general view of a lumber yard and storage sheds at Herron lumber mill. Storage sheds and wood working rooms are laid out in a definite manner to make lumber easier to handle and store to reduce time and labor needed to produce the finished product. OK-413-11.
Date: November 28, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of forestry lumber. The dry kiln at Herron mill, Idabel, Oklahoma. The kiln was installed to conserve time. Lumber is gas dried and ready 48 hours after being put through the kiln. Several mills in southeast Oklahoma have installed these kilns in a modernization of the lumber industry. Improvements in machinery and management at the mill and in the forest have been adopted to upgrade the lumber industry in this area. OK-413-10.
Date: November 28, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of Luther Lawson felling a pine tree. This tree is being taken down for lack of growth progress owing to fire damage. To gain the best from a forest, all space must be conserved for sound trees properly spaced to get the maximum footage from each acre. OK-414-7.
Date: November 28, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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