Youth Range Camp

Photograph of Chester Tracy pointing out to ranch hands Keith Seeliger, James Sprowls, and Billy Fisher the advantages of rotating grazing and bermuda grass.
Date: August 24, 1967
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cover Crop

Photograph of cattle on cover crop of small grain with 200# 10-20-10 on Taloka soils planted 10-15-67. Bill Biddle farm.
Date: October 6, 1967
Creator: McCampbell, James B.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Irrigation

Photograph of Oris Davis, center, his brother, Arnold (right) and their Uncle John checking irrigation equipment on one of their farms.
Date: December 18, 1968
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cons. Cropping System

Photograph of Mr. Daugherty turning under a good crop of vetch.
Date: June 6, 1966
Creator: Dowling, Leo C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Irrigated Corn

Photograph of harvesting irrigated corn on te Dale Cates farm south of Beaver, Okla.
Date: September 6, 1968
Creator: Hindman, Fred G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Woodland Weeding

Photograph of Mr. D.K. Bodiford, Forester, Container Corp. of America, examining litter and soil after weeding operation with crawler tractor and disk harrow. This area is to be planted to loblolly pine.
Date: October 6, 1965
Creator: Gowder, L. E.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Train Trestle Improvement Big John Creek

Photograph of (L to R): E.A. Harrison, representative of local concervancy district and R.H. Heinlen, Division Engineer, Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co., and Bobby Davis, SCS, Project Engineer; discussing trestel enlargement work on the Big John Creek channel improvement work in the Kickapoo Sandy watershed project.
Date: December 13, 1967
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Agronomy, Harvesting for Seed

Photograph of seed harvesting. Mr. Miller is in the seed business. This is a planting of common sudan and Redlan in alternate strips for production of Suder.
Date: November 13, 1967
Creator: Connoly, B. J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

State Office Personnel, William E. Hardesty

Photograph of William E. Hardesty, Civil Engineer
Date: February 9, 1968
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Range Black Jack Oak Top Kill Regrowth

Photograph of A.F. Halloran, Wildlife Management Biologist, Sports Fisheries and Wildlife , observing a Blackjack oak that was top-killed in 1963 by fire, showing sprouts coming from the base. 50 feet north of the road looking west to Mt. Sheridan from 1/10 mi. east of OU enclosure. Note rocks on right for reference purpose.
Date: April 3, 1968
Creator: Fry, Chester
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Woodland Cons.

Photograph of severe fire damage to a young stand of pines. Wild Fires are very expensive.
Date: April 15, 1966
Creator: Simons, E. T., Jr.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Clean Tilled Field, No Snow

Photograph of a clean tilled field that did not hold blowing snow.
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Mathiews, Jerry
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fort Sill Conservation Planning

Photograph of a recently worked roadside subject to severe erosion. Should be established to perennial vegetation by seeding and hay mulching. Deer Creek Canyon Road
Date: April 11, 1968
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Brush Undercutter

Photograph of a V-shaped cutting blade of a root plow which is drawn laterally though the soil 12 to 18 inches deep. This operation cuts stumps and roots and floats them to the surface with fins attached to the cutting blade, which prevents resprouting.
Date: April 20, 1966
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Pasture Land Drainage

Photograph of newly constructed drainage ditch. Wet heavy bottom land site, 3a soil. Cleared of timber in 1957. Chunk sodded to Bermuda in 1960. Soil Unit III-3a.
Date: October 26, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cattle Grazing on Bermuda grass

Photograph of cattle grazing on Bermuda grass pasture on Parsons silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes.
Date: August 15, 1968
Creator: Newland, Claude
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Deadening of Hardwoods by Girdling

Photograph of SCS Woodland Conservationist Charles Burke points out the first deadening of cull hardwood. Note effect of pine release by axe girdling of this large oak.
Date: July 15, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemuel F., Jr.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Range Improvement

Photograph of Little bluestem and sand Lovegrass plants which were seeded following pitting on shallow range site in poor condition in 1959. This was done as part of a conservation plan in the GPCP.
Date: October 6, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Harvesting Bluestem Seed

Photograph of harvesting little bluestem grass seed on land sprayed for shinnery control in 1958-59. Not sprayed in 1960 due to late killing frost. 1959 seed yield was 70 lbs per acre. Dr. Sneed is a participant of the GPCP.
Date: October 6, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cattle Grazing on Savannah Site

Photograph of cattle grazing on deep savannah site. Grasses present are little bluestem, sand bluestem, switch grass, Indian grass and sand Lovegrass. These pastures has been sprayed three times for shinnery oak control under the GPCP.
Date: January 23, 1962
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

A Critical Area

Photograph of the result of tree planting for critical area to stabilize the banks on the gully.
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: Leonard, Claude
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Crop Residue Use (2)

Photograph of Luther Nunley in field showing Stubble mulching, after wheat grown on Class Ii-soil Unit 7 Land.
Date: July 7, 1961
Creator: Leonard, Claude
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Control of Shinnery

Photograph of shinnery sprayed with 1 lb 2-4-5-T in 1958 and 1959. Deferred in summer 1958, 1959 and 1960. Grazed in winter 1960-1961.
Date: February 7, 1961
Creator: Engleman, Jack
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cobb Creek Water Recreation

Photograph of boating and water skiing can be enjoyed on Cobb Creek floodwater retarding structure No. 1.
Date: July 8, 1962
Creator: Burne, Gunnar
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History