Pecan Picking

Photograph of a young lady picking up pecans in one of the many pecan orchards in Garvin County.
Date: January 17, 1961
Creator: Fortney, Fred J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wildlife Are Improvement Water Control

Photograph of a part of a 17 acre planted, flooded field and a water control system in a hardwood bottom for ducks. The cultivated field was planted to browntop millet in July and the seeds produced were flooded in October. The flooded hardwood bottom made the acorns produce on the Nuttall oak trees. The hardwood area is drained during the summer so as to not kill the trees. Over a thousand mallards were using this field the day the picture was taken.
Date: January 17, 1959
Creator: Dillon, Olan W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of range seeding. Claude Gilbert, Assistant Supervisor, seeding tall native grasses with a district drill. OK-1349-2.
Date: January 17, 1961
Creator: Prickett, B. P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of Virgil Howard. Timber and undergrowth with pecan trees mixed in. Will be cleared of all except the pecan trees and sprigged with Bermuda grass. OK-1251-1.
Date: January 17, 1961
Creator: Fortney, Fred
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of a young lady picking up pecans in one of the many pecan orchards in Garvin County. OK-1251-9.
Date: January 17, 1961
Creator: Fortney, Fred
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Pecan Trees and Undergrowth

Photograph of timber and underbrush with pecan trees mixed in. Will be cleared of all except pecans and sprigged to Bermuda grass.
Date: January 17, 1961
Creator: Fortney, Fred 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

Ed Pewitt and N. A. Bryson

Photograph of Ed Pewitt (left) and N. A. Bryson, SCS technicians, inspecting Suiter Fescue.
Date: January 17, 1951
Creator: Brock, C. G.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watershed Maintenance

Photograph of Dr. Lloyd E. Church, Wilburton dentist and conservation leader, and William T. Fountain, Work Unit Conservationist (WUC), Soil Conservation service (SCS), Wilburton, overlooking construction work on site # 5, Fourche Maline Creek watershed. Site # 5 is a multi-purpose site that will be developed for fish and wildlife purposes as well as flood control. OK-2970-7.
Date: January 17, 1968
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History