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McKenzie River dory
Thank you for your contribution to McKenzie River dory. Can you provide inline citations, which include the relevant page numbers to the reference you added? --Geronimo20 (talk) 21:49, 14 November 2009 (UTC) Yes! I finally got to it and did what needed to be done! Thanks Geronimo20! RRFWTommartin (talk) 07:39, 22 December 2014 (UTC)


 * And thank you. --Epipelagic (talk) 10:34, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

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Am sure I'll keep working on Dock's page. RRFWTommartin (talk) 05:03, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

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Added source info for the photos in question
Hi Stan Sfan00 IMG, Thank you for pointing this out. I have added source info linking to the National Park Service website where the inages came from. Hope this is what you are looking for. If not, please let me know, thanks again, yours, Tom RRFWTommartin (talk) 14:31, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Concering Grand canyon
Do you have any journal articles, which could be considered for open access? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 14:51, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Not at this time. But I could see if I could change that. What do you have in mind? We are walking out the door for a Cataract Canyon trip, and I will be back Oct 21. All the best, tom RRFWTommartin (talk) 14:58, 9 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Ideally what is sought is the sort of articles, you'd submit to published journals (and Wikiversity would be probably be the best place to develop them initialy.)
 * And on some other things, I had mind as resources...


 * 1) Can you think of any 'printable' or 'assemblable' resources that could be used to support teaching efforts.. I am thinking along the lines of the sort of materials you'd find being given to K12 and High school students.


 * 1) On the Internet there are various simulator engines,  do you know of a rafting one? The thought here was to have a 'Virtual Canyon that could be used to inspire responsible interest in the Grand Canyon, and the craft that used it. ( Assuming the engine was customisable, you could have other virutal rivers added at a later date, assuming of course that there is NOAA/USGS data to enable a good model to be built.). Hmm... I like the idea of a Virtual Canyon rafting engine :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 15:02, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi Stan, I am sorry to report that there are still no articles. I just published a river guide to the Canyonlands section of the Green and Colorado Rivers though. That's an interesting idea, a virtual canyon rafting engine... hmmm... hope all's well, yours, tom RRFWTommartin (talk) 14:48, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you KylieTastic for your help! The more I do this and the more help I get, the better it will be! RRFWTommartin (talk) 17:02, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Whpq Whpq, Thank you for checking on the rights management of this painting. The painting and its rights are in the public domain. The painting was given to the United States Governmet, is this instance, Grand Canyon National Park. As such, I checked with the archaist and this image is in the public domain. this image is in the public domain. I attempted to post my photo of the image, but might have bot clearly stated this is a photo of an image in the public domain. Cordially yours, Tom RRFWTommartin (talk) 00:04, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

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 * Thank you Clarityfriend! We are on it and I'll focus on getting additional citations. Thank you for your assistance in this! Cordially yours, Tom RRFWTommartin (talk) 19:43, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * Thank you Missvain for your assistance with the Masland page. I see we have some more work to do and I appreciate the guidance. Most cordially yours, Tom RRFWTommartin (talk) 04:01, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * Hi Johannes, Thank you for reviewing this article and for pointing out what we need to address to make it better. We'll do as you recommend and resubmit. Cordially yours, Tom RRFWTommartin (talk) 14:04, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * Hi Johannes, Thank you so much for your assistance in the Gene Field Foster page creation. Your comments were just what I needed to up my game for her page and I am very grateful and appreciative of your advice. Most cordially yours, Tom RRFWTommartin (talk) 17:40, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

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