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Misses Curly and Billy Seale owned and managed a 3,500-acre ranch in Callahan County. They were the first ranchers in the county to become Game Preserve Demonstrators. Miss Curly Seale is tacking up the first sign on the ranch. In the first year of the Game Management Program, Texans tacked up over 13,000 of these signs.
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Shown here are the headquarters and ranch foreman's home along with a barn on the ranch west of Fort Stockton in Pecos County owned by Mrs. M.R. Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy participated in the Range Conservation Program by having several large spreader dams constructed to control water runoff. The first dams were constructed in 1912 and others in 1937 under the Range Conservation Program. Note the ever-present windmill, which was the principal means of bringing water to the surface in most of west Texas before electricity became available.
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