Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of boys fishing at a farm pond with a rock riprapped dam 3 ½ miles east of Lexington, Oklahoma. OK-6440. {riprap: referring to rocks and other materials used to cover and protect shorelines, etc. against various types of water erosion].
Date: May 3, 1938
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

A Field Gully Which Might Be Repurposed As a Terrace Outlet

Photograph of a long gully running alongside a barbed wire fence, which may be sloped and seeded for use as a terrace outlet. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Gully which may be sloped and seeded for use as a terrace outlet. To be followed with later pictures."
Date: May 3, 1950
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History