Smokey Bear Claims Views On Wildfires Have Evolved

WASHINGTON—Admitting that his prior beliefs regarding conflagrations had been formed out of ignorance, longtime U.S. Forest Service icon Smokey Bear issued a statement Monday claiming that his views on wildfires had evolved. “You have to understand, when I was coming up in the ’40s, these fires were talked about in an almost entirely negative context, […] The post Smokey Bear Claims Views On Wildfires Have Evolved  appeared first on The Onion.