Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of Forest-Range. Note overgrazing is not only holding back pine reproduction but the grass is going out. AR-61-871.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Ray, Harlan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of an area sprayed by chemicals to kill scrubby hardwoods. Note the excellent stand of native grasses. This area produced over 100 pounds of beef per acre in 1952. AR-61-873.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Ray, Harlan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of the marked trees being cut. AR-61-855-C.
Date: August 12, 1953
Creator: Hodson, E. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of second year land that has been in rice production. Cleared from woods in 1951 and 1952. AR-61, 868.
Date: August 27, 1953
Creator: Hodson, E. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of the W.J. Alderson farm, showing Herefords on pasture established in 1950 on severly eroded Crowfley’s Ridge. AR-61-878.
Date: August 19, 1953
Creator: Hodson, Edgar A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of a multiflora rose fence on the contour planted in the spring, 1950. AR-61-833.
Date: July 6, 1953
Creator: Hodson, E. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Application of Lime to Sericea

Photograph of UNIDENTIFIED farmer applying lime to sericea. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Applying lime to sericea."
Date: July 16, 1953
Creator: Hodson, Edgar A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of the Blackjack-Post Oak Ridge Range site. Range in poor condition. AR-61-872.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Ray, Harlan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of cattle grazing on chemical-sprayed area. Area sprayed in June, 1952.AR-61-876.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Ray, Harlan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of a ten acre tract of young pine planted in 1943. Planted in 6-foot rows. Every thrid row cut in the Spring of 1953. A strand of pine after thinning. AR-61-861-A.
Date: September 8, 1953
Creator: Hodson, E. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of a ten acre tract of young pine planted in 1943. Planted in 6-foot rows. Every thrid row cut in the Spring of 1953. A stump of one of the largest trees cut is thinning.. AR-61-861-B.
Date: September 8, 1953
Creator: Hodson, E. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of an area of pine marked to show the trees to be saved, 1 - 9, when thinning is done. No. 10 is a young pine for a crop tree that will develop when the "bull pine in the foreground is cut." AR-61-855-A.
Date: August 12, 1953
Creator: Hodson, E. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of a post oak tree flat range site. H.C. Ray, Forest and Range Specialist determining the age of the trees. AR-61-870.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Troxall, A. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History