Photograph of Watershed Project Site 11. Mr. George Will, District Supervisor, observing Mr. & Mrs. E. C. Webb signing the first easement on Long Branch Watershed. This easement started the proceedings to clear easements and right-of-ways for constructing Site 11 Detention Dam. Main part of dam is on Perry Cerlile's farm. The three are seated on a culvert bridge showing flood water that covered their bottomland farm 15 times in 1957, located in the Black Bear bottom, 2 miles east of Morrison.

Photograph of plastic irrigation pipe being installed. This pipe will be deep enough to allow farming over it. It will have risers at proper intervals to do a complete irrigation job on this farm. Pipe is installed at $1. 75 per foot including risers and will carry from 500 to 600 gallons of water per minute. Test pressure of 80 lbs. can be carried in pipe. Plastic pipe makes the system permanent. Class I on 0 to 1% slope, Soil Unit 2-RR.

Photograph of flood prevention and municipal supply dam. Stream channel at C/L of dam.

Photograph of stream bank cutting. Temporary stream bank erosion control measure. Bridge is located in a bend in the river and each time the water rises some more bank is eaten away near the end of the bridge. These trees are held in place by a cable and keep the water away from the raw bnk of the river. The section of bank from the man in photograph to the present location of bank was eroded away in one year.

Photograph of flood prevention & municipal supply dam. Looking down C/L of dam from Sta. 31+50 C/L dam.

Photograph of irrigated alfalfa in contour borders to protect sloping thin land that is being cultivated. Land class III, slope 2%, Soil Unit 2p-RR.

Photograph of cotton field being irrigated with syphone from border ditch. Ivan Owen, owner, add fertilizer (liquid) to tirrigation water to irrigate and fertilize in one operation.

Photograph of flood prevention and municipal supply dam. Looking east toward bottom land below embankment from Sta. 31+50 C/L dam.

Photograph of flood prevention and municipal supply dam. Rock at municipal tower location.

Photograph of flood prevention and municipal supply dam. Boring left side of spillway approximately Sta. 5+00.

Photograph of flood prevention and municipal supply dam. Rock in spillway area, left side, near Sta. 3+00.

Photograph of suburban shopping center issustrates intensive use of land resource. Such developments increase water runoff and results in flooding of areas downstream.

Photograph of district equipment harvesting weeping lovegrass seed. The grass in this area was not fertilized but was planted on virgin Cross Timbers soil and will produce an excellent seed crop.

Photograph of farm home of O.W. Johnston, a conservation farmer, near Bristow, Oklahoma. Left to right are: Mr. Frank Bolinger, Creek County Soil Conservation District Supervisor; Howard Lewis, Soil Conservation service Technician; Miss Odelene Johnston; Mrs. O.W. Johnston (seated) and grandchildren. Mr. Johnston is carrying out a complete soil conservation on his farm. OK-8984.

Photograph of a Permian Redbed sandstaone exposure with clumps of little bluestem growing wherever there is any soil. B and C horizon in the background vegetated primarily with little bluestem. OK-5284.

Photograph of a soil profile in virgin Vernon fine sandy soil. A horizon down to about 14 inches; B horizon down to about 30 inches.

Photograph of Leona Brabits' cattle.

Photograph of John Hines harvesting weeping lovegrass.

Photograph of I. G. Crotts standing between fields of corn and cotton.

Photograph of Pulaski very fine sandy loam.

Photograph of blackjack, postoak, and tall grass cover of brush on a section of Joe S. Hansen's land.

Photograph of rows of cotton, sudan, small grain, and sorgum on R. B. Fry's farm.

Photograph of rows of cotton, sudan, small grain, and sorgum on R. B. Fry's farm.

Photograph of soil profiles of Vernon and Kirkland soils, both virgin and eroded. From the Red Plain Experiment Station, Guthrie, OK. OK-5292.