Photograph of strip pits leveled for a mobile home park. From the Wagoner County Conservation District, from left to right: Ernest Snook, State Range Conservationist; Wes Thomas, Tulsa; Danny McCarty; Dem Robertson, DC, Wagoner. OK-4428-5.

Photograph of native grass on strip pits, 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-10.

Photograph of eroded strip pits 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-7.

Photograph of eroded strip pits 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-13.

Photograph of native vegetation that is growing on strip pits. OK-4429-8.

Photograph of native grass on strip pits, 25 to 35 years old, Tulsa County Conservation District. Prsent is Earnest Snook, State Range Conservationist, Stillwater, Oklahoma. OK-4428-12.

Photograph of native grass on strip pits, 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-14.

Photograph of native vegetation that is growing on strip pits. Prsent is Earnest Snook, State Range Conservationist, Stillwater, Oklahoma; Dem Robertson DC, Wagoner. OK-4429-9.

Photograph of Big Bluestem and sideoats grama, companion plants on very shallow and Loamy Prairie range sites. Soils 2-B and 24-AB.

Photograph of trees in grassland (text too difficult to read). OK-1629-8.

Photograph of Greenhill farms. Looamy bottomland with foregraound in Bermudagrass. Savannah [text unclear] condition. OK-1629-9.

Photograph of Greenhill Farms. Savannah breaks in excellent condition.

Photograph of Greenhill farms. Very shallow. Excellent condition. Note the surface limestone. OK-1629-5.

Photograph of very shallow and loamy prairie. Excellent condition. OK-1629-4.

Photograph of Greenhill Farms. Big Bluestem and sideoats grama grass, companion plants on very shallow and loamy prairie range sites. Soils 2-B and 24-AB. OK-1629-6.

Photograph of Oklahoma small watershed display. OK-3972-15.

Photograph of the Mayes County Soil and Water Conservation District [SWCD] exhibit displayed at the Tulsa State Fair. OK-3226-2.

Photograph of an Oklahoma Small Watershed Display at the Tulsa State Fair. OK-3972-15.

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 housing development illustrates intensive land use and urban demand for land resources.

Photograph of erosion in residental area in South Tulsa thaT has occurred during development. All vegetaton was removed from this area during construction.

Photograph of erosion in residental area in South Tulsa that has occurred during development. All vegitation was removed from this area during construction.

Photograph of water recreation d3evelopment on small tracts.

Photograph of H.H. Bennett, chief of the Soil Conservation Service, and F.S. Hurd, Chairman, Board of Supervisors, Arkansas Verdigris Soil Conservation District [SCD], examine an improved pasture on the farm of C.B. Ritberger. Ritberger says carrying capacity of this 88 acre pasture has been doubled since he improved it with the addition of hop clover, white Dutch, yellow hop and lespedeza. Ritberger first came to this 200acre farm as a tenant in 1928, he rented the farm for $700 from F.S. Hurd until 1938, when he bought the farm, paying $8000 cash. Starting with 2 cows in the diary business he has increased the herd to 40 Jerseys that average 20 pounds of milk per day, the year round. He also has 20 white-faced Herefords. His 92 acres of cultivated land are terraced and tilled on the contour. He has 12 acres of bluestem meadow and 2 acres of post lot. OK-8546.