Photograph of structure outlet with water level in reservoir one foot over riser.

Photograph of Double Creek Site 14. Land use changed from native pasture to tame-in the flood pool area. Native grasses were killed out in 1957 due to high water after shich was seeded with common bermudagrass.

Photograph of 24+ Angus cattle grazing on a field consisting of Balboa rye, Oregon rye grass, yellow hop, white Dutch, black medic Korean lespedeza, and Bermudagrass. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Angus cattle grazing Balboa rye & Oregon ryegrass. This improved pasture has yellow hop, white Dutch, black medic, Korean lespedeza, and Bermuda grass in it. When the picture was made the cattle had been in the rye & ryegrass 4 days. This ranch extends into both the Caney Valley & Osage County Soil Conservation Districts and is served by each.”

Photograph of "A manhole on main sewer line that has deteriorated and fallen apart, and is letting raw sewage run over pasture land."

Photograph of Double Creek, an overall view of the reservoir looking upstream.

Photograph of Double Creek, an overall view of the reservoir looking downstream.

Photograph of Double Creek, an overall view of the reservoir looking upstream.

Photograph of Double Creek Site 5 detention reservoir. See also OK 3-4. Construction completed 11-11-54

Photograph of view looking northwest across spillway entrance, show water pool elevation.

Photograph of setting concrete support blocks in trench to set concrete pipe on Site No. 4, Double Creek Sub-Watershed, Caney River Watershed

Photograph of the sign on US Highway 75 at the entrance into Double Creek Watershed from the south. The six upstream detention dams constructed on the watershed were designed and constructed by the Soil Conservation Service.

Photograph of D-7 tractor with dozer piling timber to be burned.

Photograph of a crew using a scalper to clean up bluestem seed after it has come in from the combine. Claude Kilpatrick harvested about 50,000 pounds of little and big bluestem, Indiangrass and switchgrass. In the picture, left to right are Frank Zoski, Cecil Zoski and James Whitson. The scalper is located in Kilpatrick's barn. OK-9727.

Photograph of a native grass seed scalper built by Charlie Kilpatrick and Ralph O. Knight, Soil Conservation Service technicians. OK-9821.

Photograph of a native grass seed scalper built by Charlie Kilpatrick and Ralph O. Knight, Soil Conservation Service technicians. OK-9821.

Photograph of Kilpatrick and Clarence Bunch, Washita River Flood Control agronomist from Geary, Oklahoma, who was in charge of the Soil Conservation Service seed harvest of northeastern Oklahoma native grass seed, stand by sacked bluestem seed which Kilpatrick has harvested for sale. More of the sacked seed canbe seen under the barn. OK-9728.

Photograph of a crew using a scalper to clean up bluestem seed after it has come in from the combine. Claude Kilpatrick harvested about 50,000 pounds of little and big bluestem, Indiangrass and switchgrass. In the picture, left to right are Frank Zoski, Cecil Zoski and James Whitson. The scalper is located in Kilpatrick's barn. OK-9727.

Photograph of a one hundred acre field that has been drained, leveled and summer fallowed and will be planted in alfalfa in the fall of 1955. OK-39-10.

Photograph of showing a failed effort to improve pasture. In the effort to do so, Mr. W. M. Sears spot planted Bermuda grass sod every 16 square feet and overseeded it with Korean Lespedeza. The pasture was also limed with no results. The Bermuda grass did not spread and soon both the grass and the lespedeza were gone. This work was not done in accordance with proper land use. OK-274-10.

Photograph of alfalfa, Double Creek watershed. Alfalfa grown in rotation with grain. Vetch and rye are used on this farm for soil improvement. Weeping lovegrass is planted on some Class IV land for soil improvement. Lime and fertilizer have been applied on the Chasin eden farm according to soil tests. All land on this farm are under a Soil Conservation agreement. OK-274-3.

Photograph of Jack Padgett, laborer, stirring 7000 pounds of sideoat grass seed in order to insure proper drying. OK-9824.

Photograph of Weeping lovegrass 3-years old on the Thompson farm. It is being harvested for seed. OK-9590.

Photograph of tame pasture. This pasture, a mixture of alfalfa and tall fescue grass is not grazed in the summer so that it will go into the fall with 2 to 3 tons per acre of forage on the ground for winter. It is used in a pasture rotation system with a pasture of brown grass and alfalfa and one of midland Bermuda brome grass overseeded with vetch rye. The improvements were made on these pastures with the assistance of the Soil Conservation Service. OK-274-12.

Photograph of Salt water spraying from a salt water line and killing the vegetation on a large area near the Jack Cochran farm north of Oglesby. The Saltwater is also running into Hogshooter Creek and polluting the stream. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Salt water spraying from a salt water line and killing the vegetation on a large area. Also is running into Hog-shooter Creek and polluting the stream."