Western Legends
November 1st 2011 Smokey Bear State Park
All drives through national forests, and I have been doing quite a bit on this trip, pass wooden signs of a bear wearing a forest service ranger hat and levis, holding a shovel (see The best raft trip in the United States).
The signs state the fire risk in the forest.
Statues of this bear also appear outside many forest service ranger stations.
The bear, of course, is
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