Happy Birthday Smokey Bear - August 9th

"Hot Foot Teddy," later renamed 'Smokey Bear,' stands on the plane that was used to rescue him. He was burned in 1950 in a forest fire in the Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico. Ray Bell, the New Mexico Game and Fish Commission Warden who nursed him back to health, stands beside the plane. Smokey Bear would live 26 years, passing away in 1976.