The Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society and the Washita County Conservation District welcomed conservation dignitaries to Cordell, Oklahoma on April 23, 2023, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Cloud Creek No. 1, the first upstream flood control dam completed as part of a national program of watershed flood control and soil conservation under the authority of the 1944 Flood Control Act.

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In January 1961, Oklahoma became the 23rd state to have its entire geographic area incorporated into conservation districts when a small area of land in the Panhandle was added to the Beaver County Soil Conservation District.

This 1959 photo from Be

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Forestry plays an important part in Oklahoma's conservation history. This historic photograph, dated June 9, 1944 and taken at the Farm Forestry Project bear Broken Bow in McCurtain County, shows "[p]art of [a] 16 acre permanent woodland marked

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This historic photograph from 1944 showing the farm planning process is a good example of the the conservation partnership in action. The original caption reads: "Mr. Ray C. Murrell, Work Unit Conservationist and farmowner, Paul Hertzler, examin

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Hugh Bennett came to Oklahoma many times during his early career as a Soil Surveyor and later as Chief of the Soil Conservation Service. This historic photo from the National Archives document a trip he made to Oklahoma in the Spring of 1943. The ori

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This Day in Conservation History: 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. Learn more about Budd's life and career in the oral history he rec

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When people think about conservation in Oklahoma, they are not usually thinking about trees, but about a third of our state is forested and conservation professionals have long worked to protect timber resources just as they work to protect farm and

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