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Alfalfa Field Developed in Flood Plain of Cloud Creek

Description: Photograph of an alfalfa field developed in the flood plain of Cloud Creek below detention reservoirs No. 1 and No. 2. This bottom land was formerly cut in two by a gully 4' to 6' deep. This ditch has been plowed in. The bottom formerly overflowed once or twice most years causing excessive crop losses and preventing the establishment of a stand of alfalfa. Wheat made 35 bu. per acre in 1949. A rain occurring in May 1949 would have destroyed the crop on 30 acres had it not been for the Cloud Cre… more
Date: January 21, 1950
Creator: Archer, S. G.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Alfalfa Pasture

Description: Photograph of alfalfa field developed in flood plain of Cloud Creek below detention reservoirs No. 1 and No. 2. This bottom land was formerly cut in two by a gully 4' to 6' deep. This ditch has been plowed in. The bottom formerlyy overflowed once or twice most years causing erosive crop losses and preventing the establishment of stand of alfalfa. Wheat made 35 bu. per acre in 1949. A rain occurring in May 1949 would have destroyed the crop on 30 acres had it not been for the Cloud Creek flood c… more
Date: January 21, 1950
Creator: Archer, S. G.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wasteland to Farmland

Description: Photograph of waste land that has been transformed to a newly prepared field. Some of the brush removed from newly prepared field on left. Gully 4' to 6' deep has been filled. The field will be seeded to oats in spring of 1950 and alfalfa in the fall. This was formerly waste land due to overflow.
Date: January 21, 1950
Creator: Archer, S. G.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fish and Wildlife Management

Description: Photograph of Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician Norman Smola observes how excellent wildlife food and cover provided by a living fence of multiflora arose. Wildlife have a place in today's agriculture and are planned for in conservation planning of land use and treatment. This usage serves as a fence as well as the food, shelter and rest area for song birds and quail. OK-1538-6.
Date: February 21, 1962
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Aerial Shot of Floodwater, Sediment, and Scour Damage Along Cimarron River Near Crescent

Description: Photograph of an aerial shot of floodwater, sediment, and scour damage along Cimarron River. Note the destroyed railroad lines of the left background and part of the bridge on the far right is missing. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Floodwater, sediment, and scour damage along Cimarron River, vicinity of Crescent."
Date: May 21, 1957
Creator: Brune, G. M.; Holden, Harold; Curry, Jerald & Mullins, Tilman
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watershed land treatment

Description: Photograph of A. V. "Doc" Ely, cooperator with Stephens County S&WCD, stands in an alfalfa field pasture below the dam of site site 34 of a Wild Horse Creek Watershed project on his farm 4 miles from Velma, Okla. Ely says the lake provides irrigation water and the project also gives him flood protection.
Date: April 21, 1965
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watershed / Land Treatment

Description: Photograph of Lyndal McCrory, rancher of Milo, OK (right) and Herman Denny, his foreman, have been rounding up some of McCrory's registered Black Angus bulls. There are five watershed structures on the tributaries of Caddo Creek on the ranch and provide flood protection. McCrory has stopped all row cropping and has gone completely to cattle and grass. OK-2299-4.
Date: April 21, 1965
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watershed Land Treatment

Description: Photograph of A.C. Bridges operating a bulldozer in clearing away hardwood trees and stumps on the Lyndal McCrory ranch at Milo, Okla., near Ardmore. Five structures on Caddo Creek and tributaries provide flood protection to the ranch.
Date: April 21, 1965
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watershed-land treatment

Description: Photograph of site no. 34 of Wild Horse Creek watershed project on farm of A. V. "Doc" Ely, four miles from Velma, Okla. Ely irrigates his pastures grasses, alfalfa and maize from this lake. The project also provides flood protection.
Date: April 21, 1965
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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