Photograph showing how it takes good management to produce good logs on a sustained yield basis. Soil Conservation Service technicians mark timber to be harvested on a high percentage of land worked by Stauter Mill. He paid the government $44,000 for eleven 40-acre tracts for marked timber only. OK-338-1.

Photograph of harvest cutting. It takes good logs to make good homes. To keep this mill operating continuously the Stauter Lumber Company buys logs from the McCurtain County Land Utilization [LU] Project formerly administered by the Soil Conservation Service. Increased timber volume enabled this mill to employ 85 people where none worked before. OK-315-12.

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."

Photograph of managed timber here saved for curing before going to the planing mill. Well spaced pine under management turns out clean, clear lumber products so demanded by buyers today. It takes 25,000 feet per day to keep this mill operating. OK-338-3.

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