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Recent Posts from the Conservation History Blog
Highlights from our Photography Project
Photograph of a large audience arriving from a formal meeting
Photograph of a cartoon by USDA artist Felix Summers captioned with "So Many Depend on So Few," showing how the very large populace of the United States is dependent upon a small number of farmers for their food needs. Prepared by the USDA Soil Conservation Service
Photograph of the Soil Conservation Services Camp [SCS] in Wetumka, Oklahoma. All the trucks at the Wetumka SCS camp are equipped with steps made out of the side boards for loading and unloading. This picture was taken to illustrate the safety report telling of the various safety devices put into effect at the camp. OK-5872.
Highlights from our Oral History Project
Creede Speake, Jr., long-serving board member of the Caddo Watershed Association and of the Arbuckle Conservation District in Oklahoma, recalls his life and career in conservation.
Pauline Hodges, retired college professor and high school teacher, recalls her early childhood during the Dust Bowl days in the Panhandle of Oklahoma.
Kevin Norton, a 1981 graduate of Oklahoma State University majoring in agronomy, discusses his childhood growing up in Anadarko, Oklahoma and his thirty-eight year career with the National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).
