Wildlife Are Improvement Water Control

Photograph of a part of a 17 acre planted, flooded field and a water control system in a hardwood bottom for ducks. The cultivated field was planted to browntop millet in July and the seeds produced were flooded in October. The flooded hardwood bottom made the acorns produce on the Nuttall oak trees. The hardwood area is drained during the summer so as to not kill the trees. Over a thousand mallards were using this field the day the picture was taken.
Date: January 17, 1959
Creator: Dillon, Olan W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Buffalo Grazing on Shortgrass

Photograph of Buffalo grazing on shortgrass. Blue grama dominant showing winter preference to native tall grasses. Flats Range site. Restrictive layer in subsoil prevents growth of tall grasses. Ford soils.
Date: January 8, 1959
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of the wildlife refuge. Right: excellent range conditin with little bluestem dominant on Loamy Prairie Site, Lawton loam. Left: Area with restrictive layer in the subsoil (Might be mapped Ford--if area is large enough). Dominant grass is blue grama with western ragweed, cool season annuals, buffalograss and sideoats grama.grass. OK-808-2.
Date: January 8, 1959
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wildlife Refuge Range Conditions

Photograph of Right side of photo: excellent rang3e condition with little bluestem dominant on Loamy Prairie Site, Lawton loam. Left side of photo: area with restrictive layer in the subsoil. (Might be mapped Ford-if area is large enough). Dominant grass is blue grama with western ragweed, cool season annuals, buffalograss and sideoats grama.
Date: January 8, 1959
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

A field With a Sorghum Cover

Photograph of a field with a Sorghum cover. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Sorghum Cover. Sorghum cover established under Conservation Reserve program. This field will be sown to native grasses in spring of 1959."
Date: January 20, 1959
Creator: Stith, C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sugar Creek Gully

Photograph of view of gully on which treatment is planned under the Sugar Creek flood prevention plan. This is located in Caddo County.
Date: 1959-01-XX
Creator: Wall, R. N.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cattle Grazing in Reseeded Pasture

Photograph of cattle grazing in a newly reseeded pasture.
Date: January 1959
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Creg Ranch Cattle and Reseeded Pasture

Photograph of a nine heads of cattle grazing in a reseeded pasture on the Creg ranch. A barn and house is in the far distant background on the right. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Cattle grazing in reseeded pasture."
Date: January 1959
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History