Sugar Creek Silt Deposit

Photograph of B. P. Prickett, SCS technician, examining silt deposit after 4 to 6" rain on Sugar Creek watershed. Rain fell in 30 to 45 min. Springtooth harrow covered up.
Date: July 27, 1961
Creator: Tarrant, C. D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sugar Creek Flood Plain

Photograph of silt and debris deposits on Sugar Creek flood plain after 4 to 6 inches of rain falling in 30 to 45 minutes. Bridge located north of Alfred Dorsey's home and crosses Sugar Creek.
Date: July 27, 1961
Creator: Prickett, B. P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sugar Creek Bottom Silt Deposits

Photograph of Sugar Creek bottom showing silt deposit after 4 to 6" rain that fell in 30 to 45 minutes on evening of 6/25/1961.
Date: July 27, 1961
Creator: Prickett, B. P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sallisaw Creek

Photograph of watershed, Sallisaw Creek site 23. Photo taken downstream lookin gup stream.
Date: October 27, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Salliesaw Creek Watershed

Photograph of Sallisaw Creek Watershed, Site 23. Before picture.
Date: October 27, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Recreation

Photograph of pond on the Buck Loyd farm 3 miles West and 1/2 mile North of Paoli. The pond is equipped with a diving board for swimmers. It is stocked with fish and is wasy to fish.
Date: July 27, 1967
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Proper Pasture Use

Photograph of Shorthorn heifers grazing Midland Bermuda grass. Old established astand with exellent covr. Chickasha very fine sandy loam (7) soil)
Date: September 27, 1961
Creator: Fortney, F. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Brush Clearing

Photograph of a bulldozer with a blade for Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control. OK-2820.
Date: July 27, 1967
Creator: Hall, Joe B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Tree Diseases

Photograph of a crooked pine tree with little commercial value. Note crooks and limb condition. OK-1494-7.
Date: October 27, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemeul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Exhibitions and Presentations

Photograph of an America the Beautiful display at the International Land, Pasture and Range Judging Contest. Display made by the Oklahoma State Soil Conservation Service [SCS] Office. OK-2764-16.
Date: April 27, 1967
Creator: Croom, Dan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of charter member of the Board of Supervisors of the Valliant Soil Conservation District [SCD], William E. Clarkson. Mr. Clarkson pruned all the young pine on his ranch in the fall of 1959 and spring of 1960. It is estimated if all this pine were in one block it would be about 40 acres. Clarkson has shifted from row crops to cattle raising. His overall plan is to shift to tree farming. OK-969-9.
Date: May 27, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of grass. H. A. Halford, daughter Mrs. Adams, and son, Larry, looking at native grass mixture of little bluestem, sideoats, switchgrass and blue grama seeded in 1957. OK-1114-1.
Date: May 27, 1960
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of a good stocking of pine trees. Saw logs and young reproduction: This is what woodland owners strive for. OK-1494-12.
Date: October 27, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemeul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a deep gully where a diversion empties into Beef Creek just north of Apache Indian cemetary. Hubert Murray is pointing to the end of the pipe that brings the water under the road. OK-3011-13.
Date: March 27, 1968
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Stilwell Oklahoma

Photograph of the City of Stilwell, Oklahoma
Date: October 27, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Pond Damage

Photograph of Silt damage caused by inadequate vegetative cover on watershed. Farm pond was built in 1958. Silted in 4 years. Stephensville fine sandy loam.
Date: March 27, 1962
Creator: Fortney, Fred J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Pasture Use

Photograph of Shorthorn heifers grazing Midland Bermuda grass. Old established astand with exellent covr. Chickasha very fine sandy loam (7) soil)
Date: September 27, 1961
Creator: Fortney, Fred J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of a good stocking of pine trees. Saw logs and young reproduction: This is what woodland owners strive for. OK-1494-12.
Date: October 27, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemeul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Topper Jackson loading Midland Bermuda roots for sprigging with district-owned automatic sprigger. OK-1327-7.
Date: April 27, 1961
Creator: Wall, R. H.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of an eroded roadside on the south side of Elgin Road east of Frisco Creek looking northeast. Vernon-like soils* with slick spots. OK-423-6. Vernon soils: consists of moderately deep over claystone bedrock, well drained, very slowly permeable soils that formed in residuum derived from noncemented claystone bedrock or dense clay of Permian age. https://soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/V/VERNON.html
Date: March 27, 1968
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of soil slip on a roadside with a cut slope on Chatto Road north of the golf course. OK-3011-12.
Date: March 27, 1968
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of revegetation. Cattle eating weeping lovegrass. 20 acres of weeping lovegrass had been fertilized with 100 pounds of 33-5-0 fertilizer plus 50 pounds of 0-45-0 fertilizer this spring [1960] before last year’s growth was mowed. This pasture was stocked with 24 cows with calves by their side on April 18, 1960. They will be weighed at the end of the growing season to determine the pounds of gain per acre. OK-954-12.
Date: April 27, 1960
Creator: McAnally, I. V.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Exhibitions and Presentations

Photograph of an America the Beautiful display at the International Land, Pasture and Range Judging Contest. Display made by the Oklahoma State Soil Conservation Service [SCS] Office. OK-2764-16.
Date: April 27, 1967
Creator: Croom, Dan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of a crooked pine tree with little commercial value. Note crooks and limb condition. OK-1494-7.
Date: October 27, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemeul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History