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H. C. Walker, LRSCD Board Member

Description: Photograph of H. C. Walker, LRSCD Board Member, riding a horse. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Board Member since 1939. Old time cowboy and stockman. Saw first train to Idabel. Attends state and national soil conservation meetings regularly. Ate a rare steak in Omaha but remarked "I've had 'em get well hurt nor worse than this." Walker lives alone except for horse and sheep and cattle."
Date: July 19, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Forestry Training Undertook By Smithville Vocational Agriculture class

Description: Photograph of Smithville's Vocational Agricultural Class students and their instructor on Story-McKee-Wilson Lumber Co. land set aside for them examining a pine tree that should be removed from forest because it is defective. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. J. C. Brown, 2. Jack Brock, Instructor, 3. Tom Stickle, 4. Steve Hilton, 5. Glen Hensley, 6. Glenn Scott, 7. Don McClung, 8. Luther Baxter. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Forestry Training. Smithville, Okl… more
Date: November 27, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Smithville Vocational Agriculture Class Studying Conservation Plan Map of School Forest

Description: Photograph of Vocational Agriculture class studying conservation plan map of school forest. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: Front Row: 1. J. C. Brown, 2. Glenn Scott, 3. Jack Brock, Instructor, Back Row: 1. Glen Hensley, 2. Tom Stickle, 3. Don McClung, 4. Steve Hilton, 5. Luther Baxter. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Conservation Education. Vocational Agriculture class at Smithville, Okla. High School studying conservation plan map of school forest. A tract of 8… more
Date: November 27, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Forestry Training

Description: Photograph of Glen Scott, Vocational Agriculture student, girdling cull hard wood tree in pine stand. J. C. Brown and Tom Stickler checking girdle to be certain it is wide enough to kill the tree. These boys are studying forestry in relation to soil conservation training. Work and training is being carried on in the school forest. The forest is divided into several compartments to allow study of all phases of forestry.
Date: November 27, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Forestry Training

Description: Photograph of Smithville, Okla. Vocational Agriculture class with instructor examining pine tree that should be removed from the forest because it is defective. Small log or pulpwood will be cut from defective trees of this type. A tract of about 80 acres, owned by Story-McKee-Wilson Lumber Company, is set aside as school forest where the Voc. Agri. class study and apply proper forestry practices. Selective cutting has been carried out on 20 acres in the 1955 and 1956 compartment. The high scho… more
Date: November 27, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

New Building at the Brushy Ridge School Site

Description: Photograph of a new building on the old site of Brushy Ridge School. Patrons and School Board completed this building of a class room, hall, assembly room and large kitchen for $2,600. 00. Funds from their school forest donated by J. D. Bates helped furnish the kitchen.
Date: November 20, 1956
Creator: Hayes, E. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Conservation Education

Description: Photograph of the Vocational Agriculture class at Smithville, Okla. High School studying conservation plan map of school forest. A tract of about 80 acres, owned by Story-McKee-Wilson Lumber Company, is set aside as school forest where the Voc. Agri. class study and apply proper forestry practices. Left to right is J. C. Brown, Glenn Scott, Jack Brock, Instructor, back row; Glen Hensley, Tom Stickle, Don McClung, Steve Hilton and Luther Baxter. The boys of this class are learning forestry by do… more
Date: November 27, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Forestry Training

Description: Photograph of Glen Hensley planting a pine seedling in school forest. Steve Hinton, Don McClung and Luther Baxter watching the planting. These boys are members of a Vocational Agriculture class at Smithville High School. This class has planted 5 acres of pine (1956 planting season) and plan to plant an additional 5 acres. The boys are studying as part of a well rounded course in soil conservation work.
Date: November 27, 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 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

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

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of a pine nursery. Approximately 1,500,000 Loblolly and short leaf pine trees are to be planted during the 1956 – 1957 planting season. Dry weather and the shortage of irrigation water has cut the output of this nursery by approximately 50%. These trees will be used to establish pine stands on old worn crops such as cotton and corn. The trees will conserve the land from further erosion. OK-412-2.
Date: November 26, 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 Raymond Bates, local timber worker, now operating a pulpwood yard in Idabel, Oklahoma for International Paper Company. Bates worked on LU [= land utilization] timber many years and thinks timber should be managed for the best profits. OK-386-11.
Date: October 10, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
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 increased pine growth. Follow-up to OK-10-888-D. Note the increased pine growth after release by killing hardwood. Fence needed for two more years. Notice hardwood on the left not removed. Ross Dugan is cooperating with Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technicians on woodland plans for sustained production. OK-10-888-D1.
Date: June 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of hardwood control. Notice that hardwood has disappeared. Pine is 10 feet tall from just 2 feet two years ago in Picture A. Dugan followd plan of SCS technicians on 1700 acres of similar hardwood infested pine. OK-10-888A1
Date: July 6, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of the Little River Soil Conservation Department [SCD] as it pursues a vigorous forestry program. High grading the woods and leaving the worst for 40 years makes good forest more expensive and difficult as the task becomes even larger or greater. Over 300,000 acres need inferior upload hardwood controlled in predominant pine stands. East of Glover near Bethel.
Date: April 22, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of the Little River in McCurtain County, Oklahoma. Oklahoma water goes to sea. Filtered through a protected, well-covered watershed means clear water. Probably two million acre-feet* of water escape the Little River SCD as unused each year. Mt. Fork River carries around one-third of the district watershed. OK-260-10. * an acre-foot refers to water that covers one acre of land, at a depth of one foot = approx. 326,000 gallons.
Date: April 22, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of Alvin Howard, Forest Service [FS] representative at Idabel, Oklahoma, measuring the circumference of a pine tree. "This pine tree would bring $65.00 based on recent bid sales," he says. The diameter tape tells Howard this tree is 31 inches across or diameter at breast height [dbh]. It is 80 feet high. The Soil Conservation Service administered this land for 16 years. OK-243-10.
Date: April 19, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of timber stand improvement. Pre-commercial thinning of trees to improve composition and quality of pine stand. Lee Swarts, a small mill operator, works the mill hands on off winter days on odd timber jobs to forest timber ideas and to provide steady work for regular employees. Mr. Swarts has over 8000 acres of pine land under agreement with the Little River Soil Conservation District with cutting compartments and cutting cycles. OK-412-5.
Date: November 26, 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 a pine nursery located on Yashau Creek. The output of this nursery goes largely to cooperators in the Little River Soil Conservation District. The District plants seedlings for cooperators on contract at $0.75 per 100 trees. Approximately 300,000 trees in the District in 1956. Drought reduced the output of the nursery in 1956 by abour 50%. OK-411-12.
Date: October 26, 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 John McCoy who points to pine growth despite drought, to M.H. Conine of the Soil Conservation Service [SCS]. While 84 years of age, McCoy plants some pine every winter. He, with Mrs. McCoy, having been on this land since 1905 are cooperating with the Little River Soil Conservation District [LRSCD] to make half of their 80 acre farm into forest. They live near Haworth. OK-386-1
Date: October 10, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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