Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a flood on the Black Bear Watershed. OK-368-5.
Date: May 28, 1955
Creator: Whatsall, Dick.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a wheat field where water concentrates. Waterway is to be shaped in the near future and sprigged to bermuda. This is a continuation of a waterway starting on the joining Irwin Curby farm on the north. Keith residence in the background. OK-1575-5.
Date: May 15, 1905
Creator: Morris, D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Livestock

Photograph of a quarter horse rancher. Bud and Reba Warren, receiving long distance call relative to business. Mrs. Warren is a business partner and secretary makes the Ranch a common daily routine of the home. OK-1264-12.
Date: May 14, 1905
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of the Long Branch Field Trail. PL 566, Site # 9. Jerome Sykora is sodding Prairie Cordgrass on the shoreline as a field trial to determine the effect it will have on reducing erosion caused from wave action. OK-1112-8.
Date: May 11, 1960
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watershed Maintenance

Photograph of Upper Black Bear watershed, site # 47. Growth of a sandbar willow and wave action damage. OK-4218-7.
Date: May 12, 1972
Creator: Millen, Glen L.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of flood waters. Country road south of driveway. Water is 1/2 mile wide flowing out of a Long Branch Creek near Morrison, OK. Water is approximately 1 feet deep in an oat field on the right and 2 to 2 1/2 feet deep on wheat and alfalfa land on the left. A flood control project is planned for Long Branch Creek by the Soil Conservation Service. OK-488-6.
Date: May 21, 1957
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of the Long Branch Field Trail. PL 566, Site # 9. Jerome Sykora is sodding Prairie Cordgrass on the shoreline as a field trial to determine the effect it will have on reducing erosion caused from wave action. OK-1112-8.
Date: May 11, 1960
Creator: Chance, R. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Oats and Cotton Drilled on Contour and Terraces on the Frank DeVorak Farm/Stillwater District/Stillwater Project

Photograph of oats and cotton drilled on contour and terraces on the Frank DeVorak farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Oats drilled on contour in a strip and on the terraces and between two strips of cotton, which is also planted on the contour."
Date: May 26, 1936
Creator: Slack
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History