Photograph of third grade teacher, Mrs. Virginia Prickett, with several class members planting a small shrub in an outdoor classroom. OK-4644-14.

Photograph of third grade teacher, Mrs. Virginia Prickett, with several class members examining one of the rocks in the outdoor classroom. The rocks are parent material of soils in Custer County. OK-4644-10.

Photograph of William Mast planting Bermuda grass sprigs in newly shaped waterway.

Photograph of William Mast using District owned Bermuda grass sprig planter to sprig new waterway.

Photograph of Raymond Frizzell inspecting the trash guard to protect inlet of trickle pipe. Pond recently constructed under district program.

Photograph of Ivan Goss, Lawrence Steiner loading Bermuda grass roots into a Deer Creek SCD grass sprig planter. Sprigging new waterway by Jack Jones.

Photograph of Lawrence Steiner planting Bermuda grass roots in a new waterway-using district-owned equipment.

Photograph of Jack Jones sprigging Bermuda grass roots in newly constructed waterway.

Photograph of Lloyd Hamill, owner, standing in waterway flume under construction. Seven-foot overfill gully was moving back into good cropland.

Photograph of Cobb Creek F. W. R. S. Site No. 1. Agricultural tour of Duck Creek SCD, stop 5. Photo made from southeast corner of structure.

Photograph of Cobb Creek F. W. R. S. Site No. 1. Agricultural tour of Deer Creek SCD, stop 5. Photo made from southwest corner of structure.

Photograph of lookin gwest across proposed dam of gully plug. Fred Gray, SCS technician, indicates depth of gully.

Photograph of principal spillway of Site 35, Barnitz Creek.

Photograph of an aerial shot of a flooded Washita River. Note the house, road, and a few building affected by the rising and falling waters. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Washita River, north of Stafford, Okla., at 6:00 p. m. on April 30, 1954. Note barn in background surrounded by water.”

Photograph of the Washita River, north of Stafford, OK at 6:00 pm on April 30, 1954. Note the barn in the background surrounded by water. OK-10-860.

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man on a Sheepsfoot roller compacting fill material during construction of core trench and embankment at Barnitz Creek Site 19. Three UNIDENTIFED people stand off to the left side of the trench. A fourth UNIDENTIIFED person is sitting on a tractor on the left side of the trench. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Sheepsfoot roller providing ground-bearing pressures of 200 pounds per square inch used in compacting fill material during construction of core trench and embankment."

Photograph of mild dust storm tears down main streee of Arapaho, Okla. On Highway 183.

Photograph of a buffalo skull found at a 6-foot depth in a gully plug construction work. The depth of the skull indicates piling up of sediment from flood waters. Andrew A. Orr, Soil Conservation service technician, is examining the skull. OK-9527.

Photograph of a gully plug with pipe in the process of construction under private contract in flood control work. Gully has been eroding bank back to cultivated land protected by terrace system. Eroded soil has been washing into west Barnitz Creek. Plug will stabilize land below in conjunction with other plugs and detentions. This plug will be augmented by 2 divisions to stabilize 2 other gullies and keep the terrace water from entering gullies. Photo shows fill being made. Note riser pipe which will carry water off when it reaches a certain height. See OK-9521. OK-9520.

Photograph of an aerial shot of a flooded Washita River. Note the house, road, and a few building affected by the rising and falling waters. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Washita River, north of Stafford, Okla., at 6:00 p. m. on April 30, 1954. Note barn in background surrounded by water."