Photograph of Marvin Majors using a peanut digger that turns the vines upside down.

Photograph of SCS Technician B.P. Prickett examining stubble mulch tillage. First time over with 32" sweeps-4" deep. Before 3" rain. No runoff here from rain. Adjoining cotton field washed considerably.

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.

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.

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.

Photograph of bridge approach out below proposed site 12, west of Carl Lindley's home. 4 to 6" rain fell on evening of 6/25/1961

Photograph of diversion terrace constructed as part of the critical gully treatment on area 205, Sugar Creek Watershed of the Washita River. First of a series.

Photograph of Sugar Creek. Setting fence on critical gully area 202. Sewell Bros. Contractor.

Photograph of flood prevention, J. W. Quinall, Contractor, left, being instructed on planting trees in gullied areas by SCS Forester Herb Wells, right, as Bill Trompler, State Forester, looks on.

Photograph of men seeding grass on area 204, gully treatment on Sugar Creek of the Washita River. SCS Inspector Eddie Day on the drill.

Photograph of flood prevention, showing J.W. Quinell, contractor, left, being instructed on planting trees in gullied areas by Soil Conservation Service (SCS) forester, Herb Wells, right, as Bill Trampler, State Forester, looks on. OK-1207-1.

Photograph of a landowner having placed bails of straw behind the fence to keep the water from the creek bank. OK-3729-10.

Photograph of harvesting weeping Lovegrass seed at the Herman Burks Farm. OK-2836-11.

Photograph of deferred native pasture, Leroy Mindeman farm / ranch. Native grass pasture east of the house. Grass was grazed into the ground. This is how it looks after grazing was deferred for one year. New pond in the background. OK-1430-2.

Photograph of range seeding. Claude Gilbert, Assistant Supervisor, seeding tall native grasses with a district drill. OK-1349-2.

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 Melva Rose Kimble (4-H) and her brother, Woody, (FFA), get tips from Guy Schroder in preparation for Stubble Mulch Jamboree at Enid, Oklahoma, August 15-16, 1961. The sweep machine, a necessary type of equipment for stubble mulch tillage, is manufactured at the LeRoy Kimble Machine Shop in Hydro, Oklahoma.

Photograph of Fred Wunderlich, district supervisor, observes the growth of black locust trees in Critical Area 204 of Sugar Creek regarding flood prevention. OK-1828-5.

Photograph of Topper Jackson loading Midland Bermuda roots for sprigging with district-owned automatic sprigger. OK-1327-7.

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 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.

Photograph of concerns for fire prevention and the results of one burning on rangeland during hot dry days of August 1963. The area on the right was burned accidentally from the adjacent road. The line where the fire was put out can easily be seen. Burned area was approximately 90% weeds while the unburned area was approximately 90% grasses. OK-2103.

Photograph of South Caddo County Soil & Water Conservation District {SWCD], Fred Wunderlich, Supervisor (Chester Boles Farm). Focus on flood prevention. Tree growth made in three years. Critical area 204 of Sugar Creek Watershed. OK-2910-5. Follow-up on OK-1226-2 and OK1495-6

Photograph of Ralph Inklebarger showing how he has help protecting his farm from blowing this spring.