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Wheat from Storage Bins

Description: Photograph of GPCP participant Dean Newman and DC Wes Oneth examine wheat from storage bins on the Newman farm. Wheat is used in beef cattle feedlot rations.
Date: February 23, 1972
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Control of Shinnery

Description: Photograph of shinnery sprayed with 1 lb 2-4-5-T in 1958 and 1959. Deferred in summer 1958, 1959 and 1960. Grazed in winter 1960-1961.
Date: February 7, 1961
Creator: Engleman, Jack
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

New Stock Pond

Description: Photograph of Jack Kelsey inspects new pond built to supply needed livestock water for his ranch in Woodward County. GCPC
Date: February 16, 1959
Creator: Gould, Harold C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Hooded Pipe Spillway

Description: Photograph of Mr. Hutchison examining hooded pipe spillway in erosion control dam built with GPCP assistance on his Belva ranch.
Date: February 17, 1959
Creator: Gould, Harold C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Chimney Rock

Description: Photograph of Chimney Rock, landmark of the pioneer days and a tourist attraction of Woodward County. Notice the stratified layer as deposited by the old Permian sea.
Date: 1959-02-XX
Creator: Cole, E. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Clearing

Description: Photograph of Dale Stidham, Range Conservationist, observing the benefits from the use of an under-cutter and deep plowing after land is cleared of timber. These operations will bring roots such as these to the top and prevent their regrowth.
Date: February 6, 1968
Creator: Oneth, Wes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Breaks Range Site

Description: Photograph of a Breaks Range Site in or near Woodward, Oklahoma. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Rough, broken land, Breaks Range Site showing topography and vegetation."
Date: February 1959
Creator: Nance, Earl C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of an isolated remain of the geological formation that the Cimarron River and tributaries are eroding away. The rough, broken land, Quinlan and Vernon material [i.e., soil types], occurs on very steep slopes, while the clay outcrops, Vernon material, occurs in the more level foreground. First soil is the Breaks and the second the Shallow Range Sites. OK-810.5.
Date: February 1959
Creator: Cole, E. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Distribution for Livestock

Description: Photograph of a cooperative effort in the county to combine roads with proper water distribution for livestock in the construction of dams in Woodward County SCD. Face of dam indicates the lack of correct upstream slope and drawdown pipe. Quinlan-Woodward loam, 5 to 12% slope for the Shallow Range Site.
Date: 1959-02-XX
Creator: Cole, E. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

King Ranch Bluestem Competing with Other Grasses

Description: Photograph of eleven year old King Ranch Blue Stem plant competing with Switch grass and Little Bluestem and Sand Bluestem in a planting on eroded Woodward soil. There is some volunteering of K. R. nearby. K. R. at left center, Switch grass at right center. Follow-up to OK-904-11.
Date: February 7, 1961
Creator: Engleman, Jack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Stockers on Wheat Pasture

Description: Photograph of stockers on wheat pasture. Wheat pasture is used widely as winter forage to maintain the base heard and/or the production of beef on stocker steers which are bought in the fall and sold in the spring. Foreground is Carey silt loam, 1 to 3% slope of the Loamy Range Site
Date: 1959-02-XX
Creator: Cole, E. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

New Dam for Stock Pond

Description: Photograph of Jack Kelsey standing in spillway of new pond constructed on his Woodward County ranch. The pond was built with GPCP assistance to provide a pasture with needed stock water.
Date: February 16, 1959
Creator: Gould, Harold C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

UNIDENTIFED Man Constructing a Stock Pond

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man (P. L. Hutchison") using a Caterpillar D7 to construct a stock pond in accordance with GPCP plan. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Constructing stock pond in accordance with GPCP plan. Tractor owned by Hutchison."
Date: February 17, 1959
Creator: Gould, Harold
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Great Plains Conservation Program

Description: Photograph of District Conservationist Wes Oneth and Soil Conservationist John Upton (right) shown near a tailwater recovery pit constructed on the Dr. Ralph Triplett farm north of Mooreland, Oklahoma. OK-4589-12.
Date: February 23, 1972
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Depletion of the Land, Sheet and Gully Erosion

Description: Photograph of the intensity of homesteading contributed to the cultivation of land that wa too steep and shallow. Consequently, many inches of high fertility topsoil were removed by sheet and gully erosion to be forever lost for man's use. Such depletion of the land can only mean less intensive use, lower yields, and evidently a lower standard of living for the nation. Quinlan-Woodward loam, 5 to 12% slope. Shallow Range Site.
Date: February 1959
Creator: Cole, E. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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