Beaver Dam

Photograph of a dam constucted by beavers. Section of this dam was broken and beavers repaired it soon after. Photo was submitted for possible use in the Water for America Exhibit.
Date: May 24, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Beaver Dam Construction

Photograph of a dam constructed by beavers. Section of this dam was broken and beavers repaired it soon after. Photo was submitted for possible use in the Water for America Exhibit.
Date: May 24, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Dam Constructed by Beavers

Photograph of dam constructed by beavers. Section of this dam was broken and beavers repaired it soon after. Photo was submitted for possible use in the Water for America Exhibit.
Date: May 24, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Dam Constructed by Beavers

Photograph of dam constructed by beavers. Section of this dam was broken and beavers repaired it soon after. Photo was submitted for possible use in the Water for America Exhibit.
Date: May 24, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Dam Construction by Beavers

Photograph of a dam constucted by beavers. Section of this dam was broken and beavers repaired it soon after. Photo was submitted for possible use in the Water for America Exhibit.
Date: May 24, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fire Guards Protecting Native Grasses

Photograph of fire guards protecting native grasses. South side of gravel road and east of railroad east of cemetery.
Date: November 24, 1960
Creator: Stokes, G. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Kentucky 31 and Fescue

Photograph of soil unit 4 overflow land cleared of timber and seeded to mixture of Kentucky 31 and Fescue, Common bermudagrass (seed), Ladino clover and Burr clover. Topdressed with 80 lbs. of Ammonium Nitrate per acre.
Date: May 24, 1960
Creator: Brown, G. C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Muddy Boggy Creek Floodwater Damage to New Fence

Photograph of Muddy Boggy floodwater destroyed new fence and covered county road with brush. Road was blocked 3 days to a depth of 7 foot.
Date: May 24, 1960
Creator: Brown, G. C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Roadside Waterway

Photograph of Roadside waterway for terraces constructed and established to Bermudagrass in 1959 – before terraces were constructed. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Roadside waterway for terraces constructed and established to Bermuda grass in 1959 – before terraces were constructed. Weeds controlled by mowing. South side of road – bar pit. Looking east."
Date: November 24, 1960
Creator: Stokes, G. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Soil Unit 4 Overflow Land

Photograph of soil unit 4 overflow land cleared of timber and seeded to mixture of Kentucky 31 and Fescue, Common bermudagrass (seed), Ladino clover and Burr clover. Topdressed with 80 lbs. of Ammonium Nitrate per acre.
Date: May 24, 1960
Creator: Brown, G. C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of stock water pond. Pipe installations are 16 inches [in diameter?], ½ inch thick and 180 feet long with 4 seep rings, each 6 inches square. The stockwater pond was constructed under a pooling agreement with the adjoining landowner, Ralph Ottinger. Also designed to store floodwater to protect bottomland on 3 farms below. The pipe is used as the principal spillway and has sandrock for the emergency spill. From left to right: L. B. Wyatt, the hydro landowner; Orville Fowler, from Clinton, the contractor; and Basil Murphy, from Hinton, the welder. OK-1239-11.
Date: December 24, 1960
Creator: Tarrant, Charles
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History