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 quarter horses in Bermuda pasture in the Arkansas River bottomland. IT shows the pump house over the sand points which supply part of Broken Arrow city water. In the far background are two gravel packed wells, which are part of this supply.

Photograph of an 8 year old stand of alfalfa being readied for baling. W. M. McCarty, work unit conservationist for the Soil Conservation Service, holds up some of the mowed alfalfa. This stand received 2 tons of lime per acre when planted and a light application of sheep manure. It yielded 1. 5 tons per ace by the end of the third year. Treated with 300# of 32% raw rock phosphate to the acre then it made good but spotted growth. The fan-type phosphate distributor used was blamed. Later another 300# of the phosphate was put out after the first cutting. Now yields run 3. 5 tons per acre per year. This soil is upland prairie, Soil Group 6.

Photograph of stage recorder, permanent pool and drainage area of Site 5. Detention reservoir on Double Creek Watershed.

Photograph of erosion in residental area in South Tulsa thaT has occurred during development. All vegetaton was removed from this area during construction.

Photograph of suburban shopping center issustrates intensive use of land resource. Such developments increase water runoff and results in flooding of areas downstream.

Photograph of a sprinkler type irrigation system in operation in alfalfa field. The water for this system is being pumped from Bird Creek.

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

Photograph of a rotovater at work. Manufactured by the Howard Rotovater Company and sold by International Harvester of Tulsa, Oklahoma. OK-574-5.

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 Mayes County Soil and Water Conservation District [SWCD] exhibit displayed at the Tulsa State Fair. OK-3226-2.

Photograph of young corn cultivated on the contour. The corn field is terraced. It's runoff wateres empty into the shaped sodded terrace outlet in the foreground.

Photograph of quarter horses in bermuda pasture in the Arkansas River bottom.

Photograph of the second year sweet clover in the conservation crop rotation on terrace and contour-farmed land on ME. Joyce farm as part of his complete soil and water conservation plan as worked out with Mr. Joyce and the Soil Conservation Service techicians. Sweet clover land was limed and phosphate was used according to soil tests and used for pasture, soil building and seed harvest for cash crop. Myrle Long, Farm Planner in picture.

Photograph of bermuda grass sprigs planted in every other cotton row. This field is to be retired to pasture and this means was taken to introduce the grass. It was cultivated whenever the cotton was. To be followed with later pictures.

Photograph of a roadside gully destroying a fence. On the right the fence has been moved back, the roadside resectioned, and set to Bermuda grass.

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.