Charles Freeman and Two UNIDENTIFIED State Game and Fish Dept. Technicians Checking a Net In a Fishpond

Photograph of Charles Freeman and two UNIDENTIFIED State Game and Fish Dept. technicians checking their fish net to check size, kind, and number of fish in this fishpond. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Charles Freeman paddling boat for State Game and Fish Dept. technicians who are checking their net used to trap fish for purpose of determining kind, size and number of fish in large stockwater pond on their ranch.”
Date: May 10, 1962
Creator: Tarrant, Charles
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Proper Range Use on the Honey Creek Ranch

Photograph of four heads of cattle on a properly used range consisting of big bluestem grass, little bluestem grass, switch grass, and Indiangrass. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Proper range use. Big bluestem, switch grass, Indian grass and little bluestem grass.”
Date: July 31, 1962
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
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
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
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Erosion on Soil Unit 25

Photograph of erosion on soil unit 25. Red Clay Prairie and loamy prairie range site. Site in poor condition.
Date: October 24, 1962
Creator: Hager, P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Angus Cattle Grazing on Rye

Photograph of angus cattle grazing on Rye, Austrian winter peas and some volunteer vetch in pecan orchard. Field has been well fertilized.
Date: April 25, 1962
Creator: Hager, P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Before Improvement of the Big John Creek Channel

Photograph before channel improvement began on the Kickapoo Sandy Watershed Project on Big John Creek. Note eroded bank on lower side of bridge where the floodwater had occurred in June of 1962 causing damage to bottomland below.
Date: 1962~
Creator: Long, J. R., Jr.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Peeled and Bundled Posts

Photograph of bundled and peeled pine posts. They are now ready to go to the treating plant.
Date: July 3, 1962
Creator: Smola, Norman
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Range Grasses

Photograph of native grass planting. Grasses present are Little Bluestem, Indian grass, Switch grass and San Lovegrass.
Date: January 23, 1962
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Before Channel Improvement

Photograph of channel improvement ditch before treatment on Kickapoo Sandy Watershed project on Big John Creek. Note the lower side of bridge on downstream side showing the erosion that occurred on each end of the bridge where water spilled over.
Date: 1962~
Creator: Long, J. R., Jr.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Rock Creek Irrigation

Photograph of Rock Creek, Site No. 16. Irrigation pipe that aided int eh establishment of a good stand of bermuda grass.
Date: 1962~
Creator: Milton, Willis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Rock Creek Spillway Success

Photograph of Rock Creek, Site No. 16. Wayne Cole, SCS technician, observing front slope of Site 16, the excellent stand of bermuda and the principle spillway functioning fullowing 4" rain which fell in watershed in June 1962.
Date: 1962~
Creator: Milton, Willis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Rush Springs Watershed

Photograph of watershed site 22, Rush Creek. Follow-up of OK-1240-6; just after completion of structure.
Date: July 16, 1962
Creator: Leonard, Claude
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Rush Springs Watershed

Photograph of watershed site 22, Rush Creek. Follow-up of OK-1240-6; just after completion of structure. Lake is now full. Excellent stand of bermuda grass in spillway area and on dam. Also used for stockwater.
Date: July 16, 1962
Creator: Leonard, Claude
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wildhorse Creek Flood

Photograph of Wilhorse Creek channel after 4 inch rain storm on night of 7/8/62. Thirteen structures were discharging above this point. No flooding occurred during 1962 except where channel was blocked by debris 3 miles below this point.
Date: September 7, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wildhorse Creek Cabins and Homes

Photograph ofjWildhorse Creek cabins and homes built on this site since its completion in 1957. Lake caretaker states that he has one new family a month that establishes a new residence on the lake.
Date: October 9, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Washita River Wildhorse Creek

Photograph of Wildhorse watershed drawdown tail pipe discharging after 11 inches of rain in 11 days. Twenty inches received in 18 days. Max-distance between principal and emergency spillway. Tailpipe 36' in diameter.
Date: July 2, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Washita Watershed Gas Line

Photograph of site containing a 10 inch high pressure gas line of which 550 lineal feet will be in the permanent pool. Concrete anchors were poured on this pipe at 50 feet intervals. The Lone Star Gas Company, owner of the pipeline, made all excavations, rewrapped and placed reinforciing steel around pipe. Local sponsoring agency furnished cement for achors.
Date: July 2, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wildhorse Creek Recreation Facility

Photograph of Wildhorse Creek recreational facilities on this multipurpose flood prevention reservoir, completed in 1957. Consisting of barges, boats and docks all privately owned.
Date: October 9, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wildhorse Creek

Photograph of Washita Watershed - Wildhorse Creek channel at the first section line crossing below Lake Humpreys on site 22. Only site 22 was discharging into creek above this location. At this time site 22 had a 5 foot rise over the principal spillway. Principal spillway is a 36 inch pipe.
Date: July 7, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wildhorse Watershed

Photograph of Washita Watershed, Wildhorse Creek site 22. Principal spillway is concrete pipe under the dam. At back toe of dam steel, galvanized, corrugated, 8 guage, asphalt coated culvert pipe was substituted for concrete pipe. The culvert pipe is leaking at joint, rivets, and seams. There was some vibration on the last joint of culvert pipe.
Date: July 16, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Washita River Wildhorse Creek Flood Prevention

Photograph of agronomy - L. L. Humphreys, president of the Wildhorse Creek Flood Prevention Asso. , inspecting a field of maize below Site 34 (in background). Head had just come out of the boot and shoul make a good yield. His field has been leveled twice from the Site above. This is another of the benefits derived from a program such as this.
Date: August 28, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Agronomy

Photograph of L. L. Humphreys, president of Wildhorse Creek Flood Prevention Assoc. , showing Lee J. Cerillo silage being put up by :Doc: Ely (in background). Mr. Cerillo is with the Ayer & Son Advertising Agency, Philadelphia, Pa. and was touring the watershed gathering informaiton for an article sponsored by the Caterpillar Co. Silage was cut from a field in Wildhorse bottom and had made an excellent growth.
Date: August 28, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Washita Watershed

Photograph of people fishing from McCubbins Creek bridge which is on the county road onnorth side of Lake Humphreys. This bridge is across a reach of the lake.
Date: July 4, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History