Biology

Photograph of fish population being made by Biologist of Okla. Wildlife Comm. [Oklahoma Wildlife Commission], as part of an overall plan developed by SCS technicians.
Date: February 2, 1973
Creator: Oklahoma. Wildlife Conservation Commission.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Biology-Channel Catfish

Photograph of Jerome Sykora pointng out the features of these Catfish hatching pens to Myron Hurd. These pens are on the Moore Fish Farm near Claremore. The Moores have shifted their operations from market type Channel Catfish to fingerlings.
Date: August 6, 1967
Creator: Heidlage, Robert F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Bluestem Meadow Broken Out Into 100-foot Width Contour Strips For Cultivation/Pryor Project

Photograph of bluestem meadow broken out into 100-foot width contour strips for cultivation. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Bluestem meadow broken out into 100-foot width contour strips for cultivation. Ends were left in meadow for turn rows."
Date: July 1, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Catfish Farming

Photograph of Randy Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Moore of Moore Fish Farm in Inola. Randy is holding two fish, the larger one produced from fingerlings of the same size of the smaller fish shown. The fish were on full feed in cages and fed for 180 days.
Date: October 6, 1970
Creator: Bullard, Gary L.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cleaning Fish

Photograph of Bob Moore, left, and son Randy, show cleaning fish produced on the Moore Fish Farm.
Date: October 1970
Creator: Bullard, Gary L.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Coal Mining

Photograph of coal strip pits. This rugged physical condition provides cover for the wildlife, water for fish, and water fowls, and some livestock grazing. OK-1447-10.
Date: September 5, 1961
Creator: Moss, Allen R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Collapsed Church Building Post Flood

Photograph of a part of a collapsed church building, which fell into its own basement due to a flood. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Collasped [sic] church building which was recently completed. The structure had a basement. The area around the structure had not been backfilled. The were no provisions to divert flood water away from the structure."
Date: May 1970
Creator: Heidloge, Robert F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Dock J. Polone Soil Painting

Photograph of a soil painting of an UNIDENTIFIED man by Dock J. Polone, Soil Scientist. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Soil painting by Dock J. Polone, Soil Scientist."
Date: January 1968
Creator: Heidlage, Robert F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Dock J. Polone With Three Soil Paintings

Photograph of Dock J. Polone, Soil Scientist, creating a soil painting. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Dock J. Polone putting finishing touches on a soil painting. Dock uses the different colors of soil and mixes these with glue and uses them to “paint” pictures. The three pictures here are studies of portraits of White, Negro, and Indian.”
Date: January 1968
Creator: Heidlage, Robert F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Environmental Quality-Manure Pit

Photograph of the construction site of a manure pit on the Are Froese Farm. Tank is 30' diameter x 10' deed when finished. The pit was excavated with bulldozer.
Date: September 6, 1970
Creator: K.R. Blan, DC, Claremore
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farm Homes

Photograph of a panaramic view of the Will Rogers Ranch. OK-6371.
Date: April 18, 1938
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farm Homes

Photograph of the ranch house--the Dog Iron Ranch--of the Will Rogers' estate [the"White House on the Verdigris River"--in the 1960s moved near the Oolagah Resevoir]. The house was built in 1875 by Will Rogers' father and is the house in which Will was born and raised. The ranch is now being managed by a near relative of Will Rogers who has been a cattleman all his life.
Date: April 18, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of Art Hanes, member of the Board of supervisors of Rogers Soil Conservation District with Brillion cultipacker seeder. OK-197-8.
Date: December 6, 1955
Creator: Moreland, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of Ed Hausenfluck, member of the Board of Supervisors of the Rogers County Soil Conservation District with a Pasture Dream sodland drill. OK-197-12.
Date: December 8, 1955
Creator: Moreland
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of Mr. Clyde Fraley, Chair, Board of Supervisors of the Rogers County Soil Conservation District standing by a Pasture Dream sodland drill. OK-197-6.
Date: December 6, 1955
Creator: Moreland
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of Merrill Intaman, member of the Board of Supervisors of the Rogers Soil Conservation District with 2-row automatic Bermuda sprig planter. OK-197-10.
Date: December 7, 1955
Creator: Moreland, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fish

Photograph of Dan Robertson, DC at Wagoner, foreground; and Sonny Parker of Porter placing channel catfish in cage for rearing.
Date: May 6, 1971
Creator: Bullard, Gary L.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fish and Wildlife Management

Photograph of channel catfish fingerlings lost to a protozoan parasite infestation. OK-4705-13.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Baullard, Gary
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fish Farming

Photograph of Bob Moore checking fish in cage culture of channel catfish.
Date: October 1970
Creator: Bullard, Gary L.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fish Farming

Photograph of harvesting of caged channel catfish on Moore's Fish Farm.
Date: October 1970
Creator: Bullard, Gary L.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fish Farming

Photograph of 421 pounds of channelo catfish grown from 16 pounds of fingerlings in 180 days.
Date: October 1970
Creator: Bullard, Gary L.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fish Farming

Photograph of channel catfish being transferred to holding tanks prior to cleaning. These fish produced for FFA project by Randy Moore, Son of Bob Moore of Moore Fish Farm.
Date: October 1970
Creator: Bullard, Gary L.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fish Kill Protozoan Infestation

Photograph of channel catfish lost to a protozoan parasite infestation.
Date: May 6, 1972
Creator: Bullard, Gary L.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Graded Border Irrigation System

Photograph of a graded boreder irrigation system of 400 acres. Water is pumped from the Verdigris River at H.E. corner of 400 acre field. Water is shown running from feeder ditch through border to field tabs. Field to left of electric fence is in rye and vetch and has had one irrigation. An additional 300 acres will be leveled smoothed ditched and bordered and put into irrgation in 1956. The system provides drainage as well as irrigation.
Date: November 17, 1955
Creator: Hurd and Moreland
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History