Date:   July 8, 1950
Title:   [Press release distributed by U.S. Forest Service regarding Smokey Bear publicity, page 1 of 2.]
Image Caption:   [First page of press release distributed by the national office of the U.S. Forest to media outlets, providing background on the "real" Smokey Bear.]

[From a collection of documents/photographs concerning a bear cub injured in the 1950 Capitan Gap fire in New Mexico's Lincoln National Forest. The cub was named "Smokey Bear" after the character created in 1944 by the Forest Service and the Advertising Council, and donated by the Forest Service to the National Zoo in Washington, DC where he remained until his death in 1976.]
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Repository Contact Information:   Forest History Society, Inc.; 701 William Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701; Tel.: (919) 682-9319; Fax: (919) 682-2349.