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Flood Erosion

Photograph of gully has 20 feet vertically below field above. SCS Technician Horace Haws points out bone once buried in bottom of a former gully which later silted up 8 feet higher, then washed out again 3 feet deeper. Near the tope he holds an old chain still embedded int he background.
Date: July 7, 1950
Creator: Archer, S. G.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Mobile Home Park

Photograph of strip pits leveled for a mobile home park. From the Wagoner County Conservation District, from left to right: Ernest Snook, State Range Conservationist; Wes Thomas, Tulsa; Danny McCarty; Dem Robertson, DC, Wagoner. OK-4428-5.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Pits (Surface Mining)

Photograph of native grass on strip pits, 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-10.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Pits (Surface Mining)

Photograph of eroded strip pits 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-7.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Pits (Surface Mining)

Photograph of eroded strip pits 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-13.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Pits (Surface Mining)

Photograph of native vegetation that is growing on strip pits. OK-4429-8.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Pits (Surface Mining)

Photograph of native grass on strip pits, 25 to 35 years old, Tulsa County Conservation District. Prsent is Earnest Snook, State Range Conservationist, Stillwater, Oklahoma. OK-4428-12.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Pits (Surface Mining)

Photograph of native grass on strip pits, 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-14.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Pits (Surface Mining)

Photograph of native vegetation that is growing on strip pits. Prsent is Earnest Snook, State Range Conservationist, Stillwater, Oklahoma; Dem Robertson DC, Wagoner. OK-4429-9.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a seedbed as prepared for watch cover crop. The muddy tracks show it will be many days before this field can be planted. The floodwater may stay out for weeks before receding. Mr. R. J. Wespor [?] is working with the local people, Chickasha SCD anf the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] i sto use his land with in its capabilities. OK-940-5.
Date: October 7, 1959
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Ed Jenkins, Soil Conservation District [SCD] Co-operator [left] and J. L. Coppodge [right] inspect this 20 acre planting of sericea lespedeza to determine the stage for seed harvesting. The sericea was planted in 3 foot rows in April, 1948 for pasture. Mr. Jenkins states that the sericea has afforded excellent pasture and that his cattle have eaten it readily. TX-47-274.
Date: September 7, 1950
Creator: Brock, C. G.
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 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 Spillway

Photograph of Wildhorse Creek Site 23. Principal spillway discharge after 20" of rainfall in 18" drop on watershed. This site is above City of Duncan in Clear Creek Lake.
Date: July 7, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Agronomy, Cotton and Cow Peas

Photograph of cotton and cow peas. Strip cropping on contour. 4 rows of cotton. 2 rows of cow peas with two skip rows an each side.
Date: October 7, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cotton and Cow Peas

Photograph of cotton and cow peas. Strip cropping on contour. 4 rows of cotton. 2 rows of cow peas with two skip rows an each side.
Date: October 7, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Digging Peanuts

Photograph of Marvin Majors using a peanut digger that turns the vines upside down.
Date: October 7, 1969
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of brush control. Mesquite and shinnery sprayed in 1958, 1959, and 1960. Great Plains Conservation Project. OK-983-8.
Date: October 7, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wildlife Habitat Area

Photograph of a Wildlife Habitat area seeded in 1959 to lespedeza, weeping lovegrass, sand love, Indian and little bluestem, swtich.
Date: October 7, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Drop Structure

Photograph of drop structure at site 17, Sandstone. Hershel Burrus, Sec. State Baord, SCD; Alvin M. Clements, Area Conservationist, Clinton, and Jess Dewees, Chairman, Upper Washita SCD.
Date: July 7, 1955
Creator: Clements, Alvin M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of Upper Washita Soil Conservation District [SCD] Drill. From left to right: Jess Dewees, Chairman, Upper Washita SCD; Herschel Burrus. Secretary State Board, SCD; Henry Jordan, Work Unit Conservationist {WUC}, Hammon, Oklahoma; and, Bob Wright, WUC, Cheyenne, Oklahoma. OK-96-3.
Date: July 7, 1955
Creator: Clements, Alvin M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Upper Washita SCD Drill

Photograph of Upper Washita SCD drill pictured with Jess Dawses, Chairman, Upper Washita SCD. , Hershal Burrus, Sec. State Board, SCD. , Henry Jordan, WUC, Hammon and Bob Wright, WUC, Cheyenne.
Date: July 7, 1955
Creator: Clements, Alvin M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fish

Photograph of a sein being used to catch channel cat to be placed in fish out pond on Rudolph McGehee farm.
Date: April 7, 1969
Creator: Collins, F. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fish

Photograph of typical size (1 1/4 lb.) channel catfish being placed in the fish out pond on farm.
Date: April 7, 1969
Creator: Collins, F. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History