Rush Creek Flood

Photograph of flooding on south side of Rush Creek.
Date: May 17, 1957
Creator: Graham, E. O.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Rush Creek Flood

Photograph of flood May 17, 1957, 5:30 pm. Note flooding on south side of Rush Creek.
Date: May 17, 1957
Creator: Graham, E. O.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Storm Damage Rush Creek

Photograph of Rush Creek storm damage. Fifty percent of riprap which protects the Pauls Valley dyke were ripped out. Original cost $30,000.
Date: May 17, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Deep Mud Cracks

Photograph of deep mud cracks in recent deposition on Salt Creek lood plain.
Date: July 17, 1957
Creator: Henbest, O. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Harvesting Grass

Photograph of Harvesting native grass seed with self-propelled combines. Meadow has been managed properly and conditioned maintained. Estimated yield of combine run seed was 100 lbs. per acre. Ranch planned and range managed in cooperation with Soil Conservation Service.
Date: October 17, 1957
Creator: McClung, F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of pasture seeding. Buffalo grass seeded in 1950 on overflow bottom of Clear Boggy Creek. Soil Unit 3ab. This grass shows good possibilities on this type of soil and is recommended by the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] for these areas. Mr. Krebs and C. T. Forrester, SCS and Work Unit Conservationist [WUC], respectively, in the picture. OK-534-1.
Date: July 17, 1957
Creator: Evans, C. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of the harvesting of grass. Harvesting native grass seed with self-propelled combines. The meadow has been managed properly and condition maintained. Estimated yield of the combine run of seed was 100 pounds per acre. Ranch planned and range managed in cooperation with the Soil Conservation Service. OK-572-1.
Date: October 17, 1957
Creator: McClung, Forrest
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of harvesting seed. Harvesting native grass seed. Predominately Little Bluestem with mixtures of Switch, Little Blue and Indiangrass. Eswtimated yield of 100 pounds per acre. Air dried. OK-571-12.
Date: October 17, 1957
Creator: McClung, Forrest
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of deep mud cracks in recent deposition on Salt Creek flood plain. OK-522-8.
Date: July 17, 1957
Creator: Henbest, O. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of pasture seeding. Showing the length of the stolons on Buffalo grass. Grass planted on overflow bottom of Clear Boggy Creek. Grass is recommended by the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] for tight soils in overflow area. OK-534-2.
Date: July 17, 1957
Creator: Evans, C. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Harvesting Seed

Photograph of harvesting native grass seed. Predominately little bluestem with mixtures of Switch, Little blue stem and Indiangrass. Estimated yields of 100 lbs. per acre. Air dry.
Date: October 17, 1957
Creator: McClung, F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Deep Silt Deposits

Photograph of deep silt on Lalt Creek flood plain. Not fence posts almost covered. The rate of deposition is so rapid that weeds cannot establish themselves on extensive areas of the flood plain in the lower half of this watershed.
Date: July 17, 1957
Creator: Henbest, O. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

UNIDENTIFED man Seeding a Field in Land in Conservation Reserve of the Soil Bank

Photograph of a UNIDENTFIED man drilling sideoats grama, blue grama, sand lovegrass, and switch grass into a failed sorghum field growing in conservation reserve of the soil bank. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Land in Conservation Reserve of the Soil Bank. ¼ section; 630 acres have been seeded. Drills owned by SCS district. Seven pounds of side oats [sic] and blue grama, one-pound sand love; ½ switch grass. Returning from cultivation for five years, sorghum did not make a crop so it was put in conservation reserve."
Date: January 17, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of deep silt deposits on the Salt Creek flood plain. Note the fence posts almost coverede. The rate of deposition is so rapid that weeds cannot establish themselves on extensive areas of the flood plain in the lower half of this watershed. OK-522-9.
Date: July 17, 1957
Creator: Henbest, O. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History