Installing Valliant Conservation District Sign

Photograph of Don Coffey, District Manager, installing Valliant Conservation District sign along HWY 70 on west boundary of district.
Date: April 27, 1973
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of gully control, with a contractor, A.J. McClain, sloping a gulley on the Colbert farm. OK-3827-9.
Date: May 27, 1970
Creator: Duncan, Lindell
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of gully control, with a contractor, A.J. McClain, sloping a gulley on the Colbert farm. OK-3827-13.
Date: May 27, 1970
Creator: Duncan, Lindell
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a deep gully where a diversion empties into Beef Creek just north of Apache Indian cemetary. Hubert Murray is pointing to the end of the pipe that brings the water under the road. OK-3011-13.
Date: March 27, 1968
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of an eroded roadside on the south side of Elgin Road east of Frisco Creek looking northeast. Vernon-like soils* with slick spots. OK-423-6. Vernon soils: consists of moderately deep over claystone bedrock, well drained, very slowly permeable soils that formed in residuum derived from noncemented claystone bedrock or dense clay of Permian age. https://soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/V/VERNON.html
Date: March 27, 1968
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of soil slip on a roadside with a cut slope on Chatto Road north of the golf course. OK-3011-12.
Date: March 27, 1968
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Brush Clearing

Photograph of a bulldozer with a blade for Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control. OK-2820.
Date: July 27, 1967
Creator: Hall, Joe B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Recreation

Photograph of pond on the Buck Loyd farm 3 miles West and 1/2 mile North of Paoli. The pond is equipped with a diving board for swimmers. It is stocked with fish and is wasy to fish.
Date: July 27, 1967
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of Wildhorse Flood Prevention Site 126, Erosion on the Fore Bay Area. OK-2933-3.
Date: July 27, 1967
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of erosion on the east end of the dam and east bank of the site, looking north from the east center of the dam. OK-2933-4.
Date: July 27, 1967
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Exhibitions and Presentations

Photograph of an America the Beautiful display at the International Land, Pasture and Range Judging Contest. Display made by the Oklahoma State Soil Conservation Service [SCS] Office. OK-2764-16.
Date: April 27, 1967
Creator: Croom, Dan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Exhibitions and Presentations

Photograph of an America the Beautiful display at the International Land, Pasture and Range Judging Contest. Display made by the Oklahoma State Soil Conservation Service [SCS] Office. OK-2764-16.
Date: April 27, 1967
Creator: Croom, Dan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Livestock

Photograph of cattle near farm pond grazing native grass. 40 cows and 30 calves on 40 acres of grass for 2 months: July and August. Pasture has had deffered grazing for several years. OK-1826-1.
Date: August 27, 1962
Creator: Coleman, Chester C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of engineering. Pump installation. This is the pump that puts water into the pipeline installed as part of the Great Plains Program by Floyd Tate, left. Ervin Orr, Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician also in the photo. OK-1789-5.
Date: August 27, 1962
Creator: Wall, R. N.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Construction of Lateral No. 3 One Mile North of Peno

Photograph of two UNIDENTIFED workers constructing Lateral Number 3 one mile north of Peno, Oklahoma. A third UNIDENTIFED worker is working on another lateral in the right background. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Looking up Lateral No. 3 now under construction. Ditch will drain field drain No. 7 and 9."
Date: March 27, 1962
Creator: Sturgeon, Fines
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Pond Damage

Photograph of Silt damage caused by inadequate vegetative cover on watershed. Farm pond was built in 1958. Silted in 4 years. Stephensville fine sandy loam.
Date: March 27, 1962
Creator: Fortney, Fred J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph looking up Lateral # 3 now under construction. Ditch will drain field drains No. 7 and 9. OK-1579-1.
Date: March 27, 1962
Creator: Sturgeon, Fines
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of Lawrence Winn in his 3-year old planting of Black Locust trees for a post lot and erosion control. OK-1519-3.
Date: December 27, 1961
Creator: Smith, Bob J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Hardwood Injector

Photograph of an injector being used to deaden cull hardwood with chemical. Cull hardwoods are deadened to release young pine for proper growth. Desirable hardwoods are left to maintain a mixed pine hardwood stand on suitable sites.
Date: October 27, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemuel F., Jr.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Improved Pasture

Photograph of an improved pasture. Fescue and clover sod drilled. Established bermuda in 1960.
Date: October 27, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Improved Pasture

Photograph of fescue and clover sod drilled in established bermuda in 1960.
Date: October 27, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Improved Pasture North of Tahlequah

Photograph of an improved pasture north of Tahlequah. A pole sits in the middle of the field. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Fescue and clover sod drilled Established Bermuda in 1960."
Date: October 27, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Improved Pasture North of Tahlequah

Photograph of an improved pasture north of Tahlequah. A pole sits in the middle of the field. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Fescue and clover sod drilled Established Bermuda in 1960."
Date: October 27, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Manufacturing and factories

Photograph of a cannery located in Stilwell, OK. OK-1607-2.
Date: October 27, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History