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Litchfield

Hi Matt, great job on adding details about your town. I'm curious, why don't you want to show the name of the conservation area for the trail photo? Is there some other way we could make the caption less vague? Anyway, keep up the good work! --Ken Gallager (talk) 11:29, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ken, I have been working on this conservation area almost entirely by myself for the past couple of months and I am the one who coined the unofficial name. It will receive an official name tonight (10/4), which might not actually be the unofficial name given, so I thought it would be appropriate to abstain from using it until a formal name was established.

That's good to know! It will be nice to see the official name once it's been set. Thanks, --Ken Gallager (talk) 19:06, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ken, at the meeting tonight, the unofficial name of "Fallen Birch" was presented and it failed in a 3-2 vote. This vote was not formal, however, so the name is still yet to be finally determined.

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