Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a Bermuda grass waterway sodded in the spring of 1952 with an almost solid cover near the end of the second growing season. The waterway is 200 feet wide and will carry the water from terraced fields on either side of the waterway. The waterway strip is 200 feet wide and will be used for pasture after the terraces have been constructed. Soil Unit 2, Class III BL. TX-48-831.
Date: July 1953
Creator: Brock, C. G.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Franz T. Blackert, SCS Engineer, Inspects Riser Section of Drawdown Structure at Site 10, Pilot and Sister Grove Creek

Photograph of Franz T. Blackert, SCS Engineer, Inspecting Riser Section of Drawdown Structure at Site 10, Pilot and Sister Grove Creek. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Franz T. Blackert, SCS engineer, inspects riser section of drawdown structure at site 10, Pilot and Sister Grove Creek watershed. Anti-seep collars are spaced along outlet pipe."
Date: July 1, 1952
Creator: Fox, Lester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of D.F. Bandy and son, a tenant, and Tamar Smith, Work Unit Conservationist [WUC], inspect a crop of second year Madrid clover which has been cut and windrowed for bailing. This is Soil Unit 2, Class 1 land. TX. 48-118.
Date: July 13, 1952
Creator: Brock, C. G.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Tanner Smith

Photograph of Tanner Smith (SCS technician), WUC, McKinney, TX, inspecting a field of Suiter Fescue.
Date: July 6, 1951
Creator: Brock, C. G.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Julia Church Estate Collective Terrace Outlet

Photograph of Tanner C. Smith, right, SCS technician, and Homer Wilson, Left, farmer, evaluate collective terrace outlet recently planted to Bermudagrass on group 2 Blackland. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Homer Wilson, 2. Tanner C. Smith. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Collective terrace outlet recently planted to Bermudagrass on Group 2 Blackland. After grass has become well established, 80 acres will be terraced and outletted on this 150 ft. strip. The strip will be fenced and used for pasture as well as a terrace outlet. Homer Wilson, local, farmer, appears on the left, & SCS Technician Tanner C. Smith on right."
Date: July 15, 1950
Creator: Brock, C. G.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History