User talk:JRidge

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[edit] Your edit to Yellowstone Trail

[edit] Message posted on Wednesday, June 6, 2007

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Royalbroil 01:14, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

We (John W. Ridge and Alice Ann Ridge) have undertaken the original research about the Yellowstone Trail, authored the web site (www.yellowstonetrail.org) with our own material, authored the definitive book about the Yellowstone Trail (Introducing the Yellowstone Trail, ISBN 0-9702832-0-2), and adapted our own writings for this article.


We (John W. Ridge and Alice Ann Ridge) permit the re-use of submitted material under the GFDL. I hereby note that I have done so on this Talk page.

John W. Ridge John Ridge, President Yellowstone Trail Association

Thank you for licensing your website content to be used under GFDL for the Yellowstone Trail article. I was surprised to see that I have driven most of the trail in Wisconsin at some point in the past.
I pass through the Fond du Lac, Wisconsin area every few months, and much more frequently in the summer. I probably will go through the area this weekend! I likely will take a picture of the park and signs in North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin for Wikipedia, and you are welcome to use them on your website. I license all my photographs to Creative Commons (simular to GFDL). Let me know if you would like to see anything specific in the photographs. You can contact me off-line by clicking on my username, and click on "E-mail this user" in the toolbox section on the left hand side (you probably have to scroll down). Cheers! Royalbroil 01:16, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Check out photographs that may be on the trail the Wikimedia Commons (the image storage place for all of the Wikipedias) at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wisconsin_Highway_175 . I know that Image:Wis175NorthTerminus.jpg was taken on the trail. You can find additional images that I (and a few others) have uploaded of Wisconsin highways by clicking on the category "Roads in Wisconsin" on that category page. Royalbroil 01:24, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
I took 10 pictures that turned out very well. The light was perfect - at my back on a beautiful sunny day. Some of my finest photos. You can have all of them for your website if you agree to use them under Creative Commons licensing. I will email this message to you too. Royalbroil 15:14, 11 June 2007 (UTC)