Photograph of Chester Tracy pointing out to ranch hands Keith Seeliger, James Sprowls, and Billy Fisher the advantages of rotating grazing and bermuda grass.

Photograph of erosion on soil unit 25. Red Clay Prairie and loamy prairie range site. Site in poor condition.

Photograph of gully to be shaped. K. E. Kelly in gully. Depth 17' - 45' top. Soil unit 6w-BD-4

Photograph of construction in progess on Wildhorse Creek Watershed, Site 39, Lake Fuqua. This is the second dual purpose structure in this county, the other being Lake Humphreys (Site 22).

Photograph of L to R: 1. Matt Sooter, SCS, Cheyenne, OK; 2. Dick Childs, Pasture Spec., OSU, Stillwater; 3. Jack Bohl, WUC, SCS, Hammon, OK; 4. Bob Green, Rancher, Elk City, OK; 5. Harman Seymour, Ext. Director, Cheyenne, OK; 6. Charles Grimes, Range Consv., SCS, Waurika, OK; 7. C.E. Kingery, Range Consv., SCS, Stillwater, OK; 8. Tom Perryman, WUC, SCS, Cheyenne, OK; Emmett McCord, Ext. Range Spec., OSU, Stillwater, OK; 9. Dr. Wilfred McMurphy, Agronomy Dept., OSU, Stillwater, OK; 10. O.H. Lowry, WUC, SCS, Sayre, OK; 11. B.P. Prickett, WUC, SCS, Clinton, OK. OK-2872-10.

Photograph of a peanut filed with no winter cover. OK-1293-12.

Photograph of the installation of 8 inch helcore corrugated pipe showing cut-off wall. Installed for principal spillway in an erosion control pond. Constructed under a General Partnership [GP] program. OK-1297-11.

Photograph of a chat pile, the rock waste remains after lead and zinc have been extracted from hard rock, during the grinding and flotation system. Note the erosion of the pile. This material covers some 5,000 acres in Ottawa County. Wind and water move this finely ground rock to adjacent areas. OK-2769-11.

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. The view is facing east from the southwest portion of the planting area (field # 4). Intermediate wheatgrass planted in late September, 1966. The left row was fertilized with 400 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer and the right row with 200 pounds of the same at planting time. OK-2767-5.

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.

Photograph of Mill Creek cattle feed pens built on sloping land with irrigated land in background. Irrigation project was possible because of the protection afforded by 4 floodwater retarding structures on upper end of Mill Creek. Ensilage, alfalfa, barley, and grain sorghum are grown for feed. Sugar drip cans made 50 tons of ensilage per acre with 2 cuttings. The crop was heavily fertilized and irrigated from deep wells. Feed pens have a capacity of 1500 to 2000 head.

Photograph of an irrigation project made possible because of protection afforded by 4 floodwater retarding structures on upper end of Mill Creek. Ensilage, alfalfa, barley, and grain sorghum are grown for feed. Sugar drip cans made 50 tons of ensilage per acre with 2 cuttings. The crop was heavily fertilized and irrigated from deep wells. Feed pens have a capacity of 1500 to 2000 head.

Photograph of cattle feed pens with cattle being fed ensilage produced on irrigated land protected from overflow by 4 floodwater retarding structures on upper Mill Creek. Two cuttings of ensilage made 50 tons per acre in 1960. Feed pens have capacity of 1500 to 2000 head. Other feeds produced include alfalfa hay, barley, and grain sorghums. Irrigation is from deep wells.

Photograph of Chester Tracy of the Flat Top 3 Ranch pointing out to three young men how the native grass on the ranch has improved. OK-2873-14.

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. View of a chat pile, the remains after lead and zinc has been extracted from hard rock during grinding and flotation. Note the erosion of the pile. This material covers some 5,000 acres in Ottawa County. Wind and water move this finely ground rock to adjacent areas. OK-2769-11.

Photograph of grasses. Little bluestem in phytometer,* clipped at 3 different levels weekly during growing season. OK-1466-7. * a device that measures a plant’s transpiration (i.e., water movement through the plant including evaporation from its aerial parts) by placing it in a sealed soil-containing vessel so that water can escape only through the plant’s transpiration.

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.

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.

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.

Photograph of fire guards protecting native grasses. South side of gravel road and east of railroad east of cemetery.

Photograph of Timber Creek. View west from bridge 1/4 mile south of farmstead. Timber Creek stream channel showing silt deposit before floodwater retarding structure completed.

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.

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.

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.