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Hilly Stony Land Range Site
Photograph of a hilly stony range site that has been protected from grazing for seven years. There may be some grazing by deer.
Date:
April 15, 1960
Creator:
Fry, Chester
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grama Lake
Photograph of Grama Lake. Fore-ground on right is hilly stony site, on left-loamy prairie site, excellent condition. Back ground-dark areaas with deep soil & tall grass. Light areas have very shallow soil and blue stem grama is dominate. The lake has been lowered to maintain water in streams and lakes in recreaton pasture.
Date:
September 15, 1959
Creator:
Fry, Chester
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Gully Planting
Photograph of gully planting of black locust trees in abandonded land which are not three years old. A few sprouts from the mother trees are visible and these will soon cover the gully banks. Muskogee Project, Boley Camp.
Date:
April 15, 1938
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Weeping Lovegrass
Photograph of weeping lovegrass seeded on Soil Unit 12. A lot of wind erosion had taken place as evidenced by sand hummocks along field boundary. 125 pounds 10-20-10 fertilizer per acre applied with grain drill. Seeded April 1959.
Date:
July 15, 1959
Creator:
Riley, K. E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Biology Catfish Spawn
Photograph of Dr. Howard Clemens displaying catfish spawn taken from nest from one of his brood ponds.
Date:
July 15, 1970
Creator:
Croom, Dan F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grass. Native grass. Bluestem mixture planted in 1952 on a clean seedbed. Class IV land. Soil Unit # 6. Moderate grazing during fall and winter. OK-1004-5.
Date:
September 15, 1959
Creator:
Bryan, Hugo
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grass. Native grass seeded to sideoats and blue grama. Planted in 1957 on a clean seedbed. Class III land. OK-1003-11.
Date:
September 15, 1959
Creator:
Bryan, Hugo
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of sericea Lespedeza. Sericea Lespedeza was planted in 1950 and drilled with oats and a sod drill. It will be used for hay. The sericea is growing on old cultivated land of Class III, 2% slope and Soil Unit # 6. Sixty percent of the topsoil in this field has been removed by erosion. The Soil Conservation Service recommends this type of plants rather than row crops on a field in this condition. OK-273-12.
Date:
May 15, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of the baling sericea lespedeza on the Andrew J. Costner farm, 3 miles NW of Heavener, OK. Mr. Costner is a supervisor of the LeFlore County Soil Conservation District. Charles Nobles, custom hay baler, and Roy Erwin, Work Unit Conservationist of the Soil Conservation Service, checking the quality of the sericea lespedeza hay. Twenty acres of sericea lespedeza meadow produced 509 bales of top quality hay. OK-10-873-B.
Date:
July 15, 1954
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of road bed sloughing off into gully caused by excessive run-off from adjoining cultivated fields. Conservation farming methods would have prevented this. OK-8450.
Date:
December 15, 1942
Creator:
Hammett, J.W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Cattle
Photograph of A. H. Hancock's cattle.
Date:
July 15, 1953
Creator:
Rechenthin, C. A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
H. L. Clark
Photograph of H. L. Clark, soil scientist from Thibodaux, LA, examining old seed heads.
Date:
September 15, 1951
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Omer and Orville Moore
Photograph of Omer and Orville Moore, and their dogs, with opossum hides taken over three nights.
Date:
January 15, 1939
Creator:
Hurd, M. A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Hobbs Western Timber Company
Photograph of Hobbs Western Timber Company workers loading cross-ties onto train cars.
Date:
April 15, 1941
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Pine Poles
Photograph of peeled pine poles ready for market.
Date:
April 15, 1941
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Bermuda Grass
Photograph of Bermuda grass.
Date:
August 15, 1955
Creator:
Huckabee, DeWitt
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Owl Creek Detention Reservoirs #1 & #2
Photograph of an aerial shot of Owl Creek Detention Reservoir site #1 & 2 and the surrounding area. Several homes and buildings populate the land in the top background of photograph. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Bottomland protected by this (site 2) reservoir and by Site No. 1 which is to the right.”
Date:
May 15, 1950
Creator:
Ginter Photo Co.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Owl Creek Detention Reservoir Site #4
Photograph of an aerial shot of Owl Creek Detention Reservoir site #4 and the surrounding area. A barn or a miscellaneous building stands in the background of photo on the left side. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Owl Creek Site #4. Detention Reservoir: Drainage are [sic] – 300 ac. Permanent pool – 1.13” runoff with 6.88 surface acres. Flood pool – 4.09” runoff with 19.50 surface acres. Total storage – 5.22” runoff. The flood pool which is 8 ft. in depth has a discharge rate from 31 c.f.s. to 37 c.f.s. from 18” pipe. During the storm of May 9-10 (both pools were empty except the borrow pit) 15.5 inches of rain fell in this watershed, and water was discharged, for a short time, through the emergency spillway at a depth of 1.8 ft.”
Date:
May 15, 1950
Creator:
Ginter Photo Co.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Neil Johnson Ranch Channel Type Terraces Creation
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.”
Date:
November 15, 1955
Creator:
Martin, J. Vernon
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
U. S. Highway 281 Debris Under Bridge
Photograph of G. C. Gardner, Jr., Soil Conservation Service technician, points to debris piling up under a U. S. Highway 281 bridge near Hinton. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Close up of U. S. Highway 281 bridge shown in Okla-9570. G. C. Gardner, Jr., Soil Conservation Service technician, points to debris piling up under bridge. Note narrow space between bridge floor & silt accumulation. “
Date:
April 15, 1948
Creator:
Fox, Lester C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of improper management of Lovegrass. With W.C. Stewart, District Cooperator. Cattle grazing five year old stand of Weeping Lovegrass. The Lovegrass needs to be shredded for more uniform grazing. Cattle are grazing areas where the grass has been kept short, showing the nedd for shredding the old strands of Lovegrass. OK-1292-4.
Date:
March 15, 1961
Creator:
Leonard, Claude M.
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
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation [?].
Photograph of Thomas Mabry, district cooperator, on a field where he used a Grassland Drill to plant vetch and small grain for winter pasture. OK-1525-10.
Date:
May 15, 1905
Creator:
Long, J. R., Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Lloyd Williams, a cooperator showing growth and seed development of native grass and King Ranch bluestem, Class IV soil. Grass planted in March 1962, mowed in late July to control weeds. 3 lbs. pure live seed [PLS] per acre. OK-1826-8.
Date:
October 15, 1962
Creator:
Coleman, Chester C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History