Pictured with their winning Smokey Bear posters are (left front) Sawyer Shucart and Kamila Garcia Hernandez. Back row is (left) Linda Waterstraat, garden club project leader for Smokey the Bear poster ...

Smokey Bear, the icon for wildfire safety, turns 80 years old Friday. For decades, the American public has been educated about the dangers of forest fires thanks to the bear’s memorable posters and ...

Smokey the bear being given a fire helmet by Washington Fire Departments’ deputy fire chief, M.H. Sutton in 1950 Bettmann/CORBIS The first Smokey Bear poster shows a brown-coated bear wearing jeans.

Smokey Bear, the famous mascot of wildfire prevention, endures more than 80 years after its creation. As recognizable as any other entity in advertising, the bulky, furry protector of our forests ...

CAPITAN, N.M. — In honor of Smokey Bear’s 80th birthday, the Smokey Bear Historical Park is hosting a two-week exhibit of the original artist’s paintings. Smokey Bear was a real bear burned in a 1950 ...

Smokey Bear is turning 80 years old this year. In his 8 decades, Smokey has become one of the world’s most recognizable bears. But Smokey Bear was close to being a well-loved baby deer known as Bambi.

BOZEMAN, Mont. — The Custer Gallatin National Forest will celebrate Smokey Bear's 80th birthday with an artwork tour Aug. 12 to Aug. 23. The tour will feature artwork of Smokey, by Rudolph "Rudy" ...

First things first. Smokey Bear’s middle name is not “the.” “The origin of the ‘the’ is somebody made a fun little song about Smokey and, to make the cadence of the song work, they threw in the lyric ...