Photograph of John Logan, Farm Forester, and his dog kneeling in a forty-acre cotton field enclosed by effective windbreaks on Frank Babeck's farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Forty-Acre cotton field enclosed by effective windbreaks. This is on the Frank Babeck farm 3 miles East of Willow, Okla. John Logan, Farm Forester, is the man in the picture.”

Photograph of three buffalo standing in a field located in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. The back of the photograph proclaims, “A part of the Buffalo herd in the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge, Lawton, Okla. This is the second largest herd of buffalo on the continent. The buffalo was the department store of the plains Indian, supplying them with practically all their needs. When the millions of buffalo that roamed the prairies were exterminated there were a few small herds saved and those have now grown to some 22,000 in North American game preserves.“

Photograph of sand dune Near Waynoka, Oklahoma. Note encroachment o dune on pasture land.

Photograph of a windbreqak and post lot of Black Locust trees planted in 1937. Trees have been cultivated and have attained an excellent growth. Owner first cooperated with the Checotah Camp who furnished labor to set out the trees and he is now a cooperator and member of the Soil Conservation District Board of Supervisors.

Photograph of Kudzu for erosion control on bank of North Canadian River. Crews were set out by CCC in 1940.

Photograph of the Wildlife refuge. Range condition class: Excellent. Boulder ridge and hilly, stony land (very shallow soil). OK-9214.

Photograph of hand harvesting send bluestem (Andropogon hallii). OK-8894.

Photograph of Gordon Powers pours clean buffalo grass burs into a hammermill to prove his idea that this method is a quick, cheap and safe way to more seeedlings than ever before from a pouind of buffalo grass burs. Powers also designed and built the very successful dust collector shown on the hammermill. OK-8887.

Photograph of harvesting little bluestem. Durwood Calvert doing the harvesting. OK-9787.

Photograph of Soil Conservation Service personnel and Wichita Wildlife Refuge officials on planning tour in preparation for Soil Conservation Service Range School to be conducted by Mr. B.W. Allred. Front row:, left to right: Marjorie Krelberg, W.A. Watson, Victor Bunderson, Herschel Bell, E.B. Kong, R.H. Marshall and Courtland Tidwell. Back row, left to right: Julian Howard, P.F. Alan, Larry Short, Louis reid, Rudy Peterson, Ervin Schmutz, L.H. Leithead, carl Eminger, Ben Osborn, R.B. Peck, Jack Englemann, B.W. Allred, E.J. Dyksterhuis and Ernest Greenwalt. Greenwalt is refuge Superintendant and Howard is his assistant. OK-9219.

Photograph of buffalo calves (outer) and cow (right) using mesquite trees for rubbing posts. OK-9213.

Photograph of buffalo herd on native grass range. Note calves in center and on right. OK-9210.

Photograph of part of the buffalo herd in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Lawton, Oklahoma. This is the second largest herd of buffalo on the continent. The buffalo was the "department store" of the plains Indians, supplying them with practically all their needs. When the millions of buffalo that roamed the prairies were exterminated there were a few small herds saved and those have now grown to some 22,000 in North American game preserves. OK-79, 522.

Photograph of part of the buffalo herd in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Lawton, Oklahoma. This is the second largest herd of buffalo on the continent. The buffalo was the "department store" of the plains Indians, supplying them with practically all their needs. When the millions of buffalo that roamed the prairies were exterminated there were a few small herds saved and those have now grown to some 22,000 in North American game preserves. OK-79, 521.

Photograph of part of the buffalo herd in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Lawton, Oklahoma. This is the second largest herd of buffalo on the continent. The buffalo was the "department store" of the plains Indians, supplying them with practically all their needs. When the millions of buffalo that roamed the prairies were exterminated there were a few small herds saved and those have now grown to some 22,000 in North American game preserves. OK-79, 524.

Photograph of part of the buffalo herd in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Lawton, Oklahoma. This is the second largest herd of buffalo on the continent. The buffalo was the "department store" of the plains Indians, supplying them with practically all their needs. When the millions of buffalo that roamed the prairies were exterminated there were a few small herds saved and those have now grown to some 22,000 in North American game preserves. OK-79, 520.

Photograph of part of the buffalo herd in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Lawton, Oklahoma. This is the second largest herd of buffalo on the continent. The buffalo was the "department store" of the plains Indians, supplying them with practically all their needs. When the millions of buffalo that roamed the prairies were exterminated there were a few small herds saved and those have now grown to some 22,000 in North American game preserves. OK-79, 526.

Photograph of part of the buffalo herd in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Lawton, Oklahoma. This is the second largest herd of buffalo on the continent. The buffalo was the "department store" of the plains Indians, supplying them with practically all their needs. When the millions of buffalo that roamed the prairies were exterminated there were a few small herds saved and those have now grown to some 22,000 in North American game preserves. OK-79, 523.

Photograph of a spotted longhorn steer. OK-9192.

Photograph of an aged Texan Longhorn Steer. OK-9195.

Photograph of a scalper or screener built at Woodward Nursery and used to separate large trash from seed material. The machine is operated by a small concentric [motor or engine?] having a stroke of about 3 inches and is powered by a small, electric motor. Hand harvested switch grass material is being screened. OK-8893.

Photograph of an important phase of Soil Conservation Service [SCS] regional operations which is the creation and development of needed conservation equipment. SCS technician Paul Browning (right) and DeBoy Wheatley put finishing touches on a SCS grass planter they designed and developed to do a 20 million acre Bermudagrass planting job in Region 4. Adjusting throw-out clutch between performance tests. OK-9702.

Photograph of a scalper or screener built at Woodward Nursery and used to separate large trash from seed material. The machine is operated by a small concentric [motor or engine?] having a stroke of about 3 inches and is powered by a small, electric motor. Hand harvested switch grass material i sbeing screened. OK-8893.

Photograph of Buffalo grass (Bouteloua dactyloides). A perennial, stoloniferous*, generally dioecious‡, highly palatable, drought-resistant pasture grass. Used for grazing, lawns, erosion control, outlet channels and pasture outlets. Widely adapted to soils where climatically adapted. Best on clay and loam types. Will survive on shallow soils too droughty for Bermuda grass. It is best adapted to regions having between 15 and 30 inches of rainfall. Other pasture plants may it out in high rainfall belt. Plant when harvested or during the fall and winter to February. Good moisture and low temperature conditions are necessary for the best germination. Although it will survive overgrazing during most seasons, best results are obtained by deferred or rotated grazing of this grass. OK-79, 444. * Stoloniferous = i.e., producing shoots, ‡ Dioecious = i.e., male and female reproductive organs on separate plants of the same species rather than different parts of the same plant.