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Written on photo: Urbicide.

Caption on front: Life in these United States. Ted Jones was an American photographer, director, producer, and sculptor. He was born in 1927 and died in 2007. In 1954, Jones received the Sylvania award for Television for the first water pollution special on television, "Our Beautiful Potomac." He also received an Emmy for his work on the cinematography and editing of "Urban Sprawl." Among other awards, he won a Peabody Award, Governor's award, and the Special Jury Gold Medal at the Atlanta Film Festival. He spent 17 years producing films in the environmental field. He had many picture credits in Time, Fortune, and LIFE magazines. His photographs are in the collections of the Saint Louis Art Museum, the University of New Mexico Art Museum, and the James A. Michener Museum of Art.

Caption on verso: District Ranger Sterling W. Weaver and Supervisor's Staff Assistant Don Pomarening examine an old gully which has been healed by the growing forest after the surrounding lands were taken out of cultivation some 25 years ago, and the forest regrowth protected and encouraged successively by the Resettlement Administration, the Soil Conservation Service, and finally by the Forest Services, culminating in November 1959 in national forest status.

Caption on verso: Those gullies are at edge of abandoned field being planted to pine.

Caption on verso: Brush dams, installed before planting, have collected loose soil in which pines can be planted successfully. These trees will stabilize the area within 5 to 15 years.

Caption on verso: Shortleaf pine planted by Sahara Coal Company on their spoil bank left after strip mining.

Caption on verso: Strip-mining area two years after rehabilitation work was done, planting of locust and grass.

Caption on verso: Strip-mining area four years after rehabilitation work was done, planting of locust and grass for soil rehabilitation and fish and wildlife habitat.

Caption on verso: Fishing in one of the small ponds in a strip mined area four years after rehabilitation work was started.

Caption on verso: Strip mined area eight years after rehabilitation work was done.

Caption on verso: California... A logging operation on the Klamath River, contributing to the pollution of the river.

Caption on verso: Close-up of paper waste from Champion Paper and Fiber Company, which is polluting stream.

Caption on verso: Arrowwood Refuge, Kensal, N. Dakota. Dead fish in bay across Arrowwood Lake from McKenzie Creek Point.

Caption on verso: Oil soaked waterfowl.

Caption on verso: The stern end of the oil retrieves used in Baltimore Harbor to clear the surface of the water of the oil from vessels that ply the port. The rollers shown, pick up oil as they revolve in the water. The oil is then scraped off the rollers and deposited in a tank at the stern section of the boat. When the retrieved-oil tank is filled, it is emptied into a larger tank ashore.

Caption on verso: No.753...This eroded and destructive gully on Illinois farm land, was converted into a useful farmpond by filling the depressed area with water. Grass soon grew on the banks, permitting the grazing of the cattle and the harvesting of grain.(See No.707 for "after" picture).

Caption on verso: No.707... This is the useful farmpond in Illinois, created by the use of water and which formally was an eroded, destructive gully. Mown hay can be seen stacked in the far bank which formerly sustained no plant life. (See also photo No.753 for "before" photo).

Caption on verso: 1) Environmental sanction-vector control. 2) Construction of drainage ditch to eliminate mosquito breeding site.

Caption on verso: Relief field work, planting, Yazoo-Lake Tallahatchis flood prevention project. Boy scout planting crew under guidance of consulting forester Fred Joy in severely eroded land of North Mississippi. .This was one of the several Scout crews brought out from Memphis, Tennessee on a Saturday in March, 1954, as a conservation education project of private concerns, and State and Federal agencies, including the USFS.

Caption on verso: Relief field work, planting, Yazoo-Lake Tallahatchis flood prevention project. Example of good land use: Trees on the slopes and row crops in the valley. W.C. Turpin of the Taylor community near Oxford, starts out with his planting bar and bucket of pine seedlings, while his brother R.F. Turpin can be seen plowing in the valley. Owning some 500 acres of land they have cooperated with the Y-T project in planting some 80,000 trees over the past several years.

Caption on verso: This section of the Wakulla River, southwest of Tallahassee, is being preserved in its natural state as a wildlife sanctuary. This area is included in the Southeastern Comprehensive Project for water pollution control.

Caption on verso: Group of snow geese in rice check, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. These geese have opened up this area, in feeding.

Caption on verso: Concentration of ducks (mostly mallards).

Caption on verso: Mosaic aerial showing Proposed Park Boundary and adjacent Jedediah Smith Redwoods SP and Del Norte Coast Redwoods SP.

Caption on verso: Fog southest of Camp Kalamath.