New Mexicans will surely remember watching the Smokey Bear balloon crash into a radio tower, putting the lives of the pilot and two young boys in jeopardy. Thursday was the 20th anniversary of ...

The new Smokey Bear balloon made its first appearance during Friday’s Albuquerque Aloft event at Joe Harris Elementary. Although conditions were too windy for flight on the first day of the 2024 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The new Smokey Bear special shape balloon has made its debut.After more than 20 years in operation, it was time for the last hot air balloon to be replaced.The new ...

Rather than reject Smokey entirely, we need a new Smokey Bear that popularizes the benefits of fire for our forests and our communities living in flammable forests — a Smokey Bear that embraces ...

Smokey Bear, the beloved symbol of the U.S. Forest Service, turns 80 years old on August 9, 2024. He's been warning about forest fires and wildfires in the great outdoors for eight decades.

Smokey the bear cub is flown from Santa Fe, N.M., to his new home at the Washington National Zoo in a Piper J-3 Cub by New Mexico Assistant State Game Warden Homer C. Pickens in 1950.

Smokey Bear's catchphrase changed from "Only YOU can prevent forest fires" to "Only you can prevent wildfires" in 2001. The Smokey Bear Wildfire Prevention campaign is the longest-running public ...

Smokey Bear was also a real-life bear who was the victim of a wildfire as a young cub, according to the Smithsonian Institution. In 1950, a wildfire broke out in the Lincoln National Forest in New ...

Rather than reject Smokey entirely, we need a new Smokey Bear that popularizes the benefits of fire for our forests and our communities living in flammable forests — a Smokey Bear that embraces ...