Photograph of a farmstead gate with sign.

Photograph of Conservation Districts exhibits at the Tulsa State Fair. Exhibiting Okmulgee, Mays, and Tulsa Counties Conservation Districts.

Photograph of George Sites, Area Engineer, at the site of the Bird Creek Flood in June 1973.

Photograph of Oklahoma small watershed display. OK-3972-15.

Photograph of strip pits leveled for a mobile home park. From the Wagoner County Conservation District, from left to right: Ernest Snook, State Range Conservationist; Wes Thomas, Tulsa; Danny McCarty; Dem Robertson, DC, Wagoner. OK-4428-5.

Photograph of native grass on strip pits, 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-10.

Photograph of eroded strip pits 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-7.

Photograph of eroded strip pits 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-13.

Photograph of eroded strip pits 25 to 35 years old. OK-4429-14.

Photograph of native vegetation that is growing on strip pits. OK-4429-8.

Photograph of the discharge from a drop inlet used to drain a culdesac in Vandever Acres Addition, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. This structure elimiates erosion and is good planning for water disposal in urban development.

Photograph of an example of the vast land needed to construct modern highways to serve metropolitan areas like Tulsa. The foreground shows the I-44 Skelly By-Pass and Highway 75 Okmulgee Bee-Line, while the city of Tulsa is in the background. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Intersection of I-44 (Skelly By-Pass) and Highway 75 (Okmulgee Bee-Line). Tulsa in background. Shows the vast areas of land needed to construct modern highways to serve large metropolitan areas.”

Photograph of Okmulgee County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) Fair Display at the Tulsa State Fair. OK-4006-3.

Photograph of an Oklahoma Small Watershed Display at the Tulsa State Fair. OK-3972-15.

Photograph of Okmulgee Country Soil and Water Conservation District [SWCD] Fiar Display at Tulsa State Fair. OK-4006-3.

Photograph of a strip-mined area being leveled. Spoils are being hauled out and used for road fill and fill material in housing development projects. OK-4895-2.

Photograph of native grass on strip pits, 25 to 35 years old, Tulsa County Conservation District. Prsent is Earnest Snook, State Range Conservationist, Stillwater, Oklahoma. OK-4428-12.

Photograph of eroded strip pits 30 to 35 years old. OK-4429-10.

Photograph of kudzu growing on the top and side slopes of strip pits. OK-4429-7.

Photograph of native grass on strip pits, 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-14.

Photograph of native vegetation that is growing on strip pits. Prsent is Earnest Snook, State Range Conservationist, Stillwater, Oklahoma; Dem Robertson DC, Wagoner. OK-4429-9.

Photograph of George Sites, Area Engineer, at the site of the Bird Creek Flood in June 1973.

Photograph of the discharge from a drop inlet used to drain a cul-de-sac in Vandever Acres Addition, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. This structure eliminates erosion and is good planning for water disposal in urban development.

Photograph of Beryl G. Baggett observing the overflow of Bird Creek during the flood of June, 1973.