Multiflora Rose Planting

Photograph of Olen Parker examining a multiflora Rose planted for wildlife cover along back toe of flood control structure.
Date: March 6, 1968
Creator: Meinders, Hadley C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Tree Planting

Photograph of Neighborhood Youth Corp enrollees planting white pine seedlings on idle Clase Vie land of Perkinsville loam. District Cooperator, John W. Ward. Shown are J.L. Miller; Cecil Osborne; Ronnie Miller; Jerry Hicks; Dan Isaacs; and Cecil Combs.
Date: March 29, 1966
Creator: Greene, E. D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Multiflora Rose Planting

Photograph of Olen Parker examining a multiflora Rose planted for wildlife cover along back toe of flood control structure.
Date: March 6, 1968
Creator: Meinders, Hadley C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Agronomy, Sorghum Stubble

Photograph of Sorghum stubble held 9 inches of snow in field in spite of high witnds, very little drifting.
Date: March 13, 1968
Creator: Allen, Charles
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Floodwater South of Stigler

Photograph of floodwater across Highway 82 on Sans Bois creek south of Stigler, Okla.
Date: March 21, 1968
Creator: Brinlee, R. C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Ponds: Filamentous Algae

Photograph of Filamentous Algae growing abundantly in shallow area creating a problem for fishing.
Date: March 28, 1966
Creator: Wood, J. B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Tepee Type Exclosure

Photograph of a tepee style exclosure to be used for yield data and to help ranchers determine degree of use. Teepee's cost approximately $10 not including labor.
Date: March 22, 1961
Creator: Hager, P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Rush Creek Watershed Construction

Photograph of construction series, OK-1281-2, 3, 5, & 6. After structure completed. County road crew installing pipe for road fill across spillway on Site 9, Rush Creek. This section line is also School Bus Route.
Date: March 3, 1961
Creator: Leonard, C. M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sprigging Brumuda Grass

Photograph of vegetation of Site 22, Rush Creek. Tractor on left holding grass planter in place by cable. This structure was vegetated in two days.
Date: March 2, 1961
Creator: Leonard, C. M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Completed Spillway and Dam

Photograph of follow-up of Ok-1266-10 and Ok 1261-2, 3, 5, & 6. Pipe in place and road completed across spillway. Entire road across dam and spillway was graveled. Excellent cooperation between County Commissioner, Grady County District, and SCS. Looking East. Also School bus route.
Date: March 6, 1961
Creator: Leonard, C. M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Washita River Watershed Construction Wildhorse Creek

Photograph of this is first site construction started on in second segment Wildhorse Creek. Total of 24 sites.
Date: March 12, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Washita Wildhorse Watershed

Photograph of centerline of Site 41. One of 24 structures in second segment Wildhorse Creek. Contract let early in 1962.
Date: March 20, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Improved Pasture

Photograph of an improved pasture with fescue and clover sod drilled in established bermudagrass pasture in fall of 1960. Not pastured since hay harvested in early July 1961.
Date: March 21, 1962
Creator: Shapley, Robert F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a peanut filed with no winter cover. OK-1293-12.
Date: March 24, 1961
Creator: Dowling, Leo E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds, Channel Improvements

Photograph of channel running through the city of Lindsay after construction. OK-2801-2.
Date: March 1967
Creator: Dowling, Leo E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a landowner having placed bails of straw behind the fence to keep the water from the creek bank. OK-3729-10.
Date: March 1960
Creator: Ottlinger, A. P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds, Channel Improvements

Photograph of a channel running through the city of Lindsay after construction. OK-2801-7.
Date: March 1967
Creator: Dowling, Leo E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds, Channel Improvements

Photograph of a channel running through the city of Lindsay after construction. OK-2801-3.
Date: March 1967
Creator: Dowling, Leo E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

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.
Date: March 24, 1961
Creator: Hall, Joe B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a water facilities pond that supplies water for the farmstead and livestock. The owner has hereford cattle. Basic grasses are midland Bermuda and cotton Bermuda. The pond is also stocked with fish. OK-1632-3.
Date: March 3, 1962
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of the J. R. Simmons ranch. Plot # 5. The field was seeded to a pure stand of native sideoats grama harvested from the ranch. OK-1286-10.
Date: March 14, 1961
Creator: Whittington, Fred
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of the J. R. Simmons ranch. Plot # 4. A six-acre field planted to a mixture of native grass on the Red Shale site. Grass was seeded on March 24, 1959. Seed furnished by the Plant Material Center. The mixture for this plot was: Little bluestem, blue grama, sand bluestem, Illinois bundleflower, Caddo Switchgrass and native sideoats grama. OK-1286-9.
Date: March 14, 1961
Creator: Whittington, Fred
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

Vetch as Cover Crop

Photograph of Vetch planted as cover crop. Plans are to plow under as green manure crop, and follow with crop of grain sorghums. McClain silty clay loam ($Ha).
Date: March 26, 1962
Creator: Fortney, Fred J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History