Description: Smokey Bear, the character, was created by the Forest Service in August 1944 as the lead symbol in its Wildfire Prevention Campaign. However, there was also a real, living Smokey Bear, himself the victim of a forest fire as a young cub. Smokey was born in 1950 in the Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico, where he was found badly burned. Despite the odds for survival, he was
Description: [view in English]El intercambio científico de la Institución Smithsonian con América Latina continúa con la profundidad y la amplitud que reflejan los registros históricos. La tradición de las relaciones entre universidades de las Américas adquiere un nuevo significado con la preocupación por la administración responsable de los recursos naturales del planeta. En Belice, el