Tuesday, November 9, 1976. Smokey Bear dies.
The Forest Service mascot Smokey Bear died at age 26.
The Smokey Bear campaign to combat forest fires had started in 1944, but in 1950 it was brought into living form with the rescue of a five-pound, three-month-old American black bear cub who was found in the spring of 1950 after the Capitan Gap, New Mexico, fire. He lived in the National Zoo.
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