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Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of a graphic picture of an abandoned field very badly gullied due to incorrct farming procedures. This field, only part of which is shown here, could not even be reached by a pickup truck. Plowing the field up and down the hill was the primary reason for this "picture story". OK-5046.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of Elbert Costner looks over an area from "Little Colorado" point which is being planted pine. This is to be a long range follow up series to show pine development in cull hardwoods. Picture made at the summit of a big hill looking SW at 10:00 AM on March 23, 1962. Cloudy bright. OK-1576-1.
Date: March 23, 1962
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation [?].

Description: Photograph of vetch and ryebeing used as a cover crop on a peach orchard. Note the excellent growth per year with an unusually cold winter and backward spring. Residue will be mulched for summer protection from erosion. OK-1576-8.
Date: March 23, 1962
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watersheds, Association Meetings

Description: Photograph of Tom Wharton, Soil Conservation Service [SCS] Planning Engineer explains detention site location map to members of the Stillwater Creek Watershed Association at the regular monthly meeting. Officers and directors facing camera, L to R: Chilton Swank, legal advisor; Lester Ham, president; Allen Denn, Chairman, Conservancy District; Tom Wharton, Planning Engineer, SCS; G. W. Dowell, Soil Conservation District [SCD] Representative and Ruben Joy, City Commissioner. OK-1563-2.
Date: March 6, 1962
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of Watershed Protection (P.L. 566), Upper Black bear Creek Watershed, Site No. 43. D.A. [Developable Acres?] 3.93 Sq. miles. Richard Chelf, who gave assent for the dam construction looks at the port-hole which is [the? at?] permanent water elevation of the principle spillway [sic]. OK-1568-9.
Date: March 23, 1962
Creator: Morris, David R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watersheds, Association Meetings

Description: Photograph of the Stillwater Creek Watershed Association's regular monthly meeting. Officers and representatives in the picture. L to R: standing, Cecil Wildman, Soil Conservation Service [SCS]; Ruben Jay, City Commissioner; Tom Wharton, SCS; Lester Ham, President. Backs to the camera, L to R: Gerald Bilyeu, Soil Conservation District [SCD] supervisor; Ray Henderson, Vice president; Sam Myers, Chamber of Commerce [?; C of C] Representative. Others facing camera, L to R: Chilton swank, legal adv… more
Date: March 6, 1962
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Kerr Farms boss Tommy Heavener examining root growth of vetch being turned under for soil improvement. Vetch was planted following a sorghum crop harvested for silage. Vetch nodules can be seen as small white specks on the freshly broken soil. OK-1560-5.
Date: March 22, 1962
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of sedimentation. Herb Prevett, Soil Conservation Service [SCS], measuring the amount of sand laid down along the channel of Sugar Creek from a single rain. This layer of sand is from 10 to 12 inches thick. Silt comes from the farms upstream where sound land use practicies are not used. OK-615-5.
Date: March 20, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of Watershed protection (P.L. 566), Upper Black Bear Creek, Watershed Site # 43. District Area (D.A.) = 3.93 Sq. mi. Richard Chelf, who gave the easement for the dam construction is looking at the port-hole which is the permanent elevation of the principle spillway. OK-1568-9. Photo missing.
Date: March 23, 1962
Creator: Morris, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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