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Forestry

Description: Photograph of how soils dictate what trees grow and how well they grow. Soil Conservation Service has soils maps on all land in the RC&D Project area and these soils have been rated for tree suitability and growth
Date: August 24, 1971
Creator: Smith, James E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Forestry

Description: Photograph of Norman Smola, Forester, examining age and rate of growth of pine. This information is basic for woodland management.
Date: August 24, 1971
Creator: Smith, James E.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Youth Range Camp

Description: Photograph of Chester Tracy pointing out to ranch hands Keith Seeliger, James Sprowls, and Billy Fisher the advantages of rotating grazing and bermuda grass.
Date: August 24, 1967
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Forestry

Description: Photograph of how soils dictate what trees grow and how well they grow. Soil Conservation Service has soils maps on all land in the RC&D Project area and these soils have been rated for tree suitability and growth
Date: August 24, 1971
Creator: Smith, James E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Kentucky 31 and Fescue

Description: Photograph of soil unit 4 overflow land cleared of timber and seeded to mixture of Kentucky 31 and Fescue, Common bermudagrass (seed), Ladino clover and Burr clover. Topdressed with 80 lbs. of Ammonium Nitrate per acre.
Date: May 24, 1960
Creator: Brown, G. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Soil Unit 4 Overflow Land

Description: Photograph of soil unit 4 overflow land cleared of timber and seeded to mixture of Kentucky 31 and Fescue, Common bermudagrass (seed), Ladino clover and Burr clover. Topdressed with 80 lbs. of Ammonium Nitrate per acre.
Date: May 24, 1960
Creator: Brown, G. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Standing in Lister Ridges

Description: Photograph of water standingin lister ridges in field strip cropped with cats and listed feed after a heavy downpour. Note even distribution of water [that] stands whee it falls in the contours. Contrast this with Picture No. K-5091 showing saturation of water in wash in low place in field. Taken after same rain.
Date: May 24, 1937
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Bass Caught at Land Utilization Lake

Description: Photograph of Large mouth Bass caught on artificial lure at L.U. Lake, northwest of Cheyenne, Oklahoma. Lake was stocked 2 years ago and has revealed by an examination of their scales, both the fish are under 2 years old. Bass on left weighed 2.5 lbs and the one on the right weighed 3 lbs. Both ere caught 18 months after the pond was stocked.
Date: March 24, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Beaver Dam Construction

Description: Photograph of a dam constructed by beavers. Section of this dam was broken and beavers repaired it soon after. Photo was submitted for possible use in the Water for America Exhibit.
Date: May 24, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Flood Control Benefits

Description: Photograph of Mill Creek cattle feed pens built on sloping land with irrigated land in background. Irrigation project was possible because of the protection afforded by 4 floodwater retarding structures on upper end of Mill Creek. Ensilage, alfalfa, barley, and grain sorghum are grown for feed. Sugar drip cans made 50 tons of ensilage per acre with 2 cuttings. The crop was heavily fertilized and irrigated from deep wells. Feed pens have a capacity of 1500 to 2000 head.
Date: April 24, 1961
Creator: Fry, Chester
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Benefits of Washita River and Mill Creek Watershed Projects

Description: Photograph of an irrigation project made possible because of protection afforded by 4 floodwater retarding structures on upper end of Mill Creek. Ensilage, alfalfa, barley, and grain sorghum are grown for feed. Sugar drip cans made 50 tons of ensilage per acre with 2 cuttings. The crop was heavily fertilized and irrigated from deep wells. Feed pens have a capacity of 1500 to 2000 head.
Date: April 24, 1961
Creator: Fry, Chester
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Flood Control Benefits from Mill Creek

Description: Photograph of cattle feed pens with cattle being fed ensilage produced on irrigated land protected from overflow by 4 floodwater retarding structures on upper Mill Creek. Two cuttings of ensilage made 50 tons per acre in 1960. Feed pens have capacity of 1500 to 2000 head. Other feeds produced include alfalfa hay, barley, and grain sorghums. Irrigation is from deep wells.
Date: April 24, 1961
Creator: Fry, Chester
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Silted Area of the Washita

Description: Photograph of a silted area of the Washita River, 1-2 feet deep, here 16", originally in alfalfa before flood. Several hundred acres of silted area. This is a silt area, some areas covered with blow sand 3-4 feet deep.
Date: July 24, 1957
Creator: Chase, Ward
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Standing Water

Description: Photograph of water standing in listed ridges in strip cropped field with oats and listed feed. This picture was taken shortley after a heavy downpour.
Date: July 24, 1937
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Seventh Annual Youth Range Camp

Description: Photograph of L to R: 1. Matt Sooter, SCS, Cheyenne, OK; 2. Dick Childs, Pasture Spec., OSU, Stillwater; 3. Jack Bohl, WUC, SCS, Hammon, OK; 4. Bob Green, Rancher, Elk City, OK; 5. Harman Seymour, Ext. Director, Cheyenne, OK; 6. Charles Grimes, Range Consv., SCS, Waurika, OK; 7. C.E. Kingery, Range Consv., SCS, Stillwater, OK; 8. Tom Perryman, WUC, SCS, Cheyenne, OK; Emmett McCord, Ext. Range Spec., OSU, Stillwater, OK; 9. Dr. Wilfred McMurphy, Agronomy Dept., OSU, Stillwater, OK; 10. O.H. Lowr… more
Date: August 24, 1968
Creator: Croom, Dan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watersheds

Description: Photograph of channel improvements on Wildhorse Creek watershed, 1.5 miles north of Tatums. Channel work done in 1968 and 1969 and vegetated in 1969 with Bermuda sprigs. Approximately 3 miles of improvement in this segment, view upstream. Arbuckle CD, Carter County, Oklahoma. OK-4322-9D.
Date: July 24, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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