Shout Out and Reminders: “Wilder Than Wild” Discussion and “Apocalypse Never”...
This struggle is real for not-for-profit folks like us also. (from the Collaborative Creations website. Some of you may have noticed that The Smokey Wire was down for about a day last week. I...
View ArticleNew Tab on The Smokey Wire: Webinars of Interest
Since Covid, many seminars and conferences have been moved online. This gives us all who aren’t at universities nor able to afford travel for conferences a plethora of new learning opportunities. This...
View ArticleEnd of 2020 The Smokey Wire Business
We’ll be discussing the ideas in this book starting in two weeks.Happy New Year to everyone! 1) You may be in the middle of donations for the end of tax year. While The Smokey Wire donations are NOT...
View ArticleHappy Holidays Everyone!
Christmas Tree tag from the Eldorado National Forest I’ll be off until January 6. Just a few year-end notes. Thanks to everyone who makes The Smokey Wire what it is, and what it has been over the last...
View ArticleThe Smokey Wire Coronavirus Challenge
Tree Friends Many of us have more time on our hands. I’d like to ask folks in the TWS community to consider taking this opportunity to do something they wouldn’t normally have time to do. I’m speaking...
View ArticleShout Out and Reminders: “Wilder Than Wild” Discussion and “Apocalypse Never”...
This struggle is real for not-for-profit folks like us also. (from the Collaborative Creations website. Some of you may have noticed that The Smokey Wire was down for about a day last week. I...
View ArticleNew Tab on The Smokey Wire: Webinars of Interest
Since Covid, many seminars and conferences have been moved online. This gives us all who aren’t at universities nor able to afford travel for conferences a plethora of new learning opportunities. This...
View ArticleEnd of 2020 The Smokey Wire Business
We’ll be discussing the ideas in this book starting in two weeks.Happy New Year to everyone! 1) You may be in the middle of donations for the end of tax year. While The Smokey Wire donations are NOT...
View ArticleThe Smokey Wire Website Tune-Up
Sadly, our wondrous web guru Hillary has moved on from the web business. Fortunately, we have a team of new web gurus at Cloudnine Web Design. They are doing mysterious behind the scenes things at the...
View ArticleSharon’s Fall Blogging Break
Stand of changing yellow Aspen tree in front of dark green pine trees in mountains of Colorado on fall afternoon I posted a few extra over the past Friday and weekend, and will be out from today until...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving to All!
“Right now we have more wild turkeys in more places in Colorado than ever occurred here historically,” said Ed Gorman, small game manager for the Division of Wildlife....
View ArticleVolunteers Wanted for The Smokey Wire
I’m interested in getting one or more volunteers for The Smokey Wire. I’ve accumulated way more interesting stories than I have been able to find the time to post. Also, there are many I need to write...
View ArticleComment Problem Fixed
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View ArticleSharon’s June 2022 Blogging Break
I’ll be off for a week starting Monday. Please feel free to email if there are problems like the website is down, or people are being unusually fractious. Email is on the donate widget to the right.
View ArticleFall Blogging Break
The Wonkikus is often found in the tony resort habitat, along with associated species including Journales and Academicus. ********************************************* All, I’m starting my fall...
View ArticleTSW Website Design Feedback Requested
As you may have noticed, originally I was looking at getting donations of $3K to improve the design of The Smokey Wire. Well, that’s been going on for some years, and meanwhile upkeep has eaten into...
View ArticleBlogging Break, Crown Shyness and Grid Experts
Crown shyness- not sure where this is from, nor what species I’m taking off for two weeks and Steve Wilent has graciously volunteered to administer TSW in my absence. I ran across this about “crown...
View ArticleVolunteers Needed: Federal Legislation Coverage
Legislation is extremely important to our mutual interests, and we need one or more volunteers to cover it. Even if you just want to follow one topic, or one bill, that would be a tremendous help....
View ArticleWelcome to The Smokey Wire! Reminder of TSW Values
It appears that we have some new subscribers and it has been awhile since we restated our norms and values. So Welcome!.. you’ll find we are a hospitable group. The three doors of charitable speech....
View ArticleTSW Proposed Guideline: Can We Leave Intention Out of Our Discussions?
Mike, Jim and Jon were discussing a topic yesterday that I want to dig into a bit, because I think it has a broader context, one about intention. Mike questioned two of Jim’s cites. One was about the...
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