Photograph of a Strip pit and spoils bank covered by multiple kinds of vegetation. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Strip pit and spoils bank planted in shortleaf pine, mulberry and black locust on raw banks. Also cottonwood, blackberry and weeds volunteering. Used for wildlife cover – song birds, quail, rabbit and crows.”

Photograph of digging bermudagrass roots with springtooth harrow.

Photograph of core drill taking denison sample, Site 62, Barnitz Creek.

Photograph of 8 inch plastic pipe used to convey water frompump to rows or borders. Pipe has 2-inch plastic sleeves to let water into each row.

Photograph of side delivery raske being used to gather bermuda grass roots. A spring tooth harrow was used to dig the roots.

Photograph of row irrigation; part of field is 2 percent slope, row direction down steepest slope; plastic sleeves in pipe lets water down each row.

Photograph of terrace construction. Striking off the back slopes of a channel type terrace built entirely with a bulldozer. See OK-190-12 for the first pass made with the bulldozer in starting the construction. OK-190-10.

Photograph of a bulldozer striking out the last pass on a channel-type terrace constructed entirely with bulldozer equipment. See OK-190-10 for the completed terraces and OK-190-12 for the starting of the terrace. The terrace spills directly into a meadow strip shaped and seeded to King Ranch [KR] Bluestem in March, 1952. OK-190-11.

Photograph of vetch being plowed under for soil improvement.

Photograph of Bermuda grass.

Photograph of an UNIDENTFIED man on the Neil Johnson Ranch “striking off the backslopes of a channel type terrace built entirely with a bulldozer.” The back of the photograph proclaims, “Striking off the backslopes of a channel type terrace built entirely with a bulldozer. See Okla-190-12 for the first pass made with bulldozer in starting construction.”

Photograph of a squirrel nest in black locust tree. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Squirrel nest in black locust tree, which was planted on spoils banks in 1947. Volunteer plants are silver bluestem, weeds, cottonwood and willows.“

Photograph of a densely forested area consisting of black locust, red juniper (cedar), cottonwood, and hackberry trees planted on spoils banks. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Spoils banks dug in 1944 and planted to black locust and red juniper (cedar) trees in 1947 by H. C. Skidmore, district cooperator. Besides the planted locust and cedar, cottonwood, and hackberry volunteered in this picture. Crows, songbirds and squirrel (Fox and Grey) nest in this planting. 6000 trees were planted."

Photograph of a "before picture." This ten acre field situated in a small valley was so severely eroded in the rains and flood of October 2, 1955, that it was planned to sod the whole fied to bermuda grass. Floodwater removed the soil over much of the area to plow depth and deeper in a few places. OK-204-7.

Photograph of a squirrel nest in a black locust tree which was planted on a spoils bank in 1947. Volunteer plants include silver bluestem grass, weeds, cottonwood and willow trees. OK-189-9.

Photograph of the A. B. Blackburn Coop, where oats and vetch are seeded in a Bermuda grass sod pasture with a sod drill. The Bermuda grass has not been grazed. OK-139-9.

Photograph of an old elm tree growing on a side of a hill that was called the Land Mark Tree by Cherokees who settled the Cooweescoowee District after the Civil War. The tree was seemingly as large when the area was settled by whites in 1893 [i.e., the 1893 Land Run, the 4th of 5 between 1889 and 1895] as it is today. Tall prairie grasses that would hide a steer grew on the hill in the valley below in 1893. It was in an overgrazed pasture from about 1900 to about 1950. The old territorial road passed within 50 feet of the tree (in foreground). A generation of trees--elm, ash, hackberry, etc.--has grown to maturity along the creek and died, replaced now by another general [sic], but this Land Mark Tree lives on with many of its roots exposed. OK-109-9.

Photograph of the first push in the beginning of construction of a channel-type terrace with bulldozer equipment. Note the white flag just in front of the bulldozer marking the center for the completed channel. For the completed terrace, see OK-190-10 and later pictures for the other steps in the construction of channel type terraces with bulldozer equipment. OK-190-12.

Photograph of row irrigation; part of field is 2 percent slope, row direction down steepest slope; plastic sleeves in pipe lets water down each row.

Photograph of an UNIDENTFIED man on the Neil Johnson Ranch "striking off the backslopes of a channel type terrace built entirely with a bulldozer." The back of the photograph proclaims, "Striking off the backslopes of a channel type terrace built entirely with a bulldozer. See Okla-190-12 for the first pass made with bulldozer in starting construction."

Photograph of an UNIDENTFIED man on the Neil Johnson Ranch "striking off the backslopes of a channel type terrace built entirely with a bulldozer." The back of the photograph proclaims, "Striking off the backslopes of a channel type terrace built entirely with a bulldozer. See Okla-190-12 for the first pass made with bulldozer in starting construction."

Photograph of a densely forested area consisting of black locust, red juniper (cedar), cottonwood, and hackberry volunteered trees planted on spoils banks. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Spoils banks dug in 1944 and planted to black locust and red juniper (cedar) trees in 1947 by H. C. Skidmore, district cooperator. Besides the planted locust and cedar, cottonwood, and hackberry volunteered in this picture. Crows, songbirds and squirrel (Fox and Grey) nest in this planting. 6000 trees were planted.”

Photograph of Bermuda grass.

Photograph of row irrigation; part of field is 2 percent slope, row direction down steepest slope; plastic sleeves in pipe lets water down each row.