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Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of oil field salt water damage. A salt water damaged area. Tank at salt water injection well seeps and occasionally overflows. Trial plantings are to be made after salt water source is eliminated. Diversion terrace in background now protects area from overhead water. OK-4414-4.
Date: July 19, 1971
Creator: Fry, Chester
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wildlife

Description: Photograph of Wildhorse Creek Site # 42. Beaver lodge above flood prevention structure. Beaver prevents the area from becoming overgrown with willows, cottonwoods and other woody vegetation. OK-4098-8
Date: February 19, 1971
Creator: Fry, Chester
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Hurshal E. Boyd and Tom Hayes Standing at Future Site of Site 16A, Roaring Creek

Description: Photograph of Hurshal E. Boyd, Area Conservationist, and Tom Hayes, Area Engineer standing at the future site of Site 16A, Roaring Creek. The photo does not indicate the left to right positions of Boyd or Hayes. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Watershed: Hurshal E. Boyd, Area Conservationist, and Tom Hayes, Area Engineer, of Pauls Valley standing at the centerline of Structure to be built-Site 16A, Roaring Creek. Center line [sic] of dam crossing gully here - Approximately 30' deep. This… more
Date: April 19, 1962
Creator: Leonard, Claude M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Conservation Plan Review

Description: Photograph of SCS Technician Olen Rowlett and Willis J. Sorrells discuss the Great Plains conservaton plan with Mr. & Mrs. Eldred Sasseen. Sasseen is the first to sign a Great Plains contract in Washita County. Mr. & Mrs. Sasseen operate a 1200 acre Hereford ranch.
Date: January 19, 1962
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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

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.
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 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

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 signing the first easement for the Cane Creek Watershed. Virgil Cole, Chairman, Cane Creek Conservancy District and Member of the Muskogee County Soil and Water conservation District [SWCD] Board of Supervisors, 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 signed June 28, 1955. This is for Site #… more
Date: October 19, 1961
Creator: Castle, Ernest L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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