This Day in Conservation History: Budd Fountain becomes SCS State Conservationist

On October 27, 1987, C. Budd Fountain became the seventh Oklahoma State Conservationist. He served for four years and nine months until July 4, 1992.

Photograph of Budd Fountain, c. 1987, from the Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society collection; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1613207/: accessed October 27, 2021), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society.

Hear more about Budd Fountain’s life and career in the oral history he recorded for OCHS and the OSU oral project in September 2018.