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Erosian Control

Photograph of Marshall Jordan, Soil Conservation Services [SCS] technician examing a gully which has ben healed by a 12-year-old planting of native grass mixture. Little bluestem is the predominant grass. 20RR--High, good range condition. OK-10, 583.
Date: August 20, 1951
Creator: Tompkins, Gordon
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass Pasture

Photograph of Marshall Jordon, SCS technician, examining gully which has been healed by 12-year-old planting of native grass mizture. Little bluestem is the predominating grass. 20RR - High good range condition.
Date: August 20, 1951
Creator: Tomkins, Gordon
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass Pasture

Photograph of twelve year old native grass planting on Thurmond's 11,000-acre Red Rock Ranch. Little bluestem is the predominating grass. This pasture is rested periodically. Stocking rate is approxately 25 acres per cow and calf. 20RR - High good range condition.
Date: August 20, 1951
Creator: Tomkins, Gordon
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Gully Healed by Native Grass

Photograph of Marshall Jordan, SCS technician, examining gully which has been healed by 12 year old planting of native grass mixture. Little bluestem is the predominate grass. High good range condition.
Date: August 20, 1951
Creator: Tomkins, Gordon
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Native Grass Planting

Photograph of Henry Jordan, left, and Marshall Jordan, SCS technicians, study 12 year old native grass planting on Thurmond;s 11,000 acre Red Rock Ranch. Stocking rate is approximately 25 acres per cow and calf. This pasture is rested periodically. 20RR-High good range condition.
Date: August 20, 1951
Creator: Tomkins, Gordon
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Native Grass Planting on Red Rock Ranch

Photograph of Henry Jordan, left, and Marshall Jordan, SCS technicians, study 12 year old native grass planting on Thurmond;s 11,000 acre Red Rock Ranch. Stocking rate is approximately 25 acres per cow and calf. This pasture is rested periodically. 20RR- High good range condition.
Date: August 20, 1951
Creator: Tomkins, Gordon
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Seed Storage House

Photograph of seed storage house owned and operated by the Upper Washita SCD. Through district seed houses like this, armers get locally-adapted seed at easy on the pocket prices.
Date: August 20, 1951
Creator: Tomkins, Gordon
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0381.0147]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Man in suit and tie is Lowell Lawrence Males. Caption: "All these men are active in flood control and soil conservations work in western Oklahoma."
Date: July 15, 1951
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oklahoma's Million Acre Ranch (open access)

Oklahoma's Million Acre Ranch

Article explores the history of Roger Mills County and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Cattle Company, which leased lands on the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation. Melvin Harrell examines correspondence from the time to analyze the conflict that occurred between the cattlemen and the tribes living on the land.
Date: Spring 1951
Creator: Harrel, Melvin
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0145.0272]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: March 8, 1951
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume, and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of project seeding of sand bluestem planted in the spring of 1944 on abandoned cropland. Marshall N. Jordan, District Conservationist. Upper Washita Soil Conservation District [SCD], Cheyenne, Oklahoma. OK-81, 197.
Date: 1951
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History