8/09/2006

A. K. A. "Hotfoot Teddy"

Smokey Bear is introduced by the U. S. Forest Service on this day in 1944.

Gary Snyder depicts Smokey as the reincarnation of the Great Sun Buddha in his poem, Smokey the Bear Sutra.
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