Montana-Wyoming 2011 - Glacier and Yellowstone - Thoughts on future
July 17th 2011 In 1950, a frightened, orphaned bear cub with badly burned paws was retrieved from a tree where he had taken refuge from the Capitan Gap fire in Lincoln County, NM. Flown by private plane to Washington's National Zoo, he became the living embodiment of the U.S. Forest Service campaign against fires which had begun with the debut of a new ad campaign in 1944 in which Smokey Bear ("the" was adde
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