"Smokey Bear Smokey Bear is an American advertising icon created by the U.S. Forest Service with artist Albert Staehle, possibly in collaboration with writer and art critic Harold Rosenberg. In the longest-running public service advertising campaign in United States history, the Ad Council, the United States Forest Service (USFS), and the National Association of State Foresters (NASF) employ Smokey Bear to educate the public about the dangers of unplanned human-caused wildfires. A campaign featuring Smokey and the slogan ""Smokey Says – Care Will Prevent 9 out of 10 Forest Fires"" began in 1944. His later slogan, ""Remember... Only YOU Can"
"poster was released on August 9, 1944, which is considered the character's birthday. Overseen by the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Campaign (CFFP), the first poster was illustrated by Albert Staehle. In it Smokey was depicted wearing jeans and a campaign hat, pouring a bucket of water on a campfire. The message underneath reads, ""Smokey says – Care will prevent 9 out of 10 forest fires!"" Knickerbocker Bears gained the license to produce Smokey Bear dolls in 1944. Also in 1949, Forest Service worker Rudy Wendelin became the full-time campaign artist and he was considered Smokey Bear's ""manager"" until Wendelin retired"
"not become Army standard until six years later, some in the photo have re-creased their hats into the Montana Peak, probably during their service in Cuba or the Philippines during the 1898 Spanish–American War. Following the national park ranger style, many states' fish and game wardens and state park police wear campaign hats. Rangers of many local parks departments also wear the campaign hat, such as the New York City Urban Park Rangers. The animal logo-mascot of the US Forest Service, Smokey Bear, wears the campaign hat. Smokey's debut poster was released on August 9, 1944, which is considered his"
"States Forest Service campaign to raise awareness of protecting the environment. Woodsy's slogan was officially introduced on September 15, 1971 by Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin. The first Woodsy Owl public service spot was created by U.S. Forest Ranger Chuck Williams, who was the Forest Service's technical consultant for the ""Lassie"" TV show which featured a Forest Service Ranger and his family. Williams, along with Bell and Glenn Kovar, also of the U.S. Forest Service, brainstormed the idea for the Woodsy motif name together in Los Angeles, California, in 1970. In 1974, the U.S. Congress passed the Woodsy Owl Act"
"Johnny Horizon Johnny Horizon was a mascot used by the Bureau of Land Management in the United States in the 1970s primarily for its anti-litter campaign. First used in 1968, and resembling a cigaretteless Marlboro Man, Johnny Horizon reached his greatest use in the years leading up to the United States Bicentennial celebration, with the ""Johnny Horizon '76 Program"". September 15, 1974 to October 15, 1974 was proclaimed ""Johnny Horizon '76 Clean Up America Month, 1974"" by President Gerald R. Ford. Like the better known Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl characters of the United States Forest Service, use of the"
"As of 2009, the character now uses the slogan, ""Help Woodsy Spread the Word"", mixed with the song, ""The Syncopated Clock"", by Leroy Anderson. Harold Bell Harold Bell (October 5, 1919 – December 4, 2009) was an American marketer and merchandising executive who co-created Woodsy Owl, the iconic mascot of the United States Forest Service. Bell created Woodsy Owl with two U.S. park rangers, Chuck Williams and Glenn Kovar, and another colleague, Betty Hite, for the first Earth Day in 1970. Woodsy Owl is best known for the motto, ""Give a hoot, don’t pollute!"". Harold Bell was born on October"
"birthday. Overseen by the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Campaign, the first poster was illustrated by Albert Staehle. In it, Smokey was depicted wearing jeans and a ""forest ranger's hat"" (a campaign hat), pouring a bucket of water on a campfire. The message underneath reads, ""Smokey says – Care will prevent 9 out of 10 forest fires!"" The emblem of the National Park Foundation was, until December 2013, a stylized campaign hat. Several US state police services and federal agencies wear campaign hats. So common is use of the campaign hat among state highway police that they are sometimes referred to"
"is a way to efficiently and safely provide for fire’s natural role in the ecosystem. However, the goal of Smokey Bear will always be to reduce the number of human-caused wildfires and reduce the loss of resources, homes and lives. Smokey Bear Smokey Bear is an American advertising icon created by the U.S. Forest Service with artist Albert Staehle, possibly in collaboration with writer and art critic Harold Rosenberg. In the longest-running public service advertising campaign in United States history, the Ad Council, the United States Forest Service (USFS), and the National Association of State Foresters (NASF) employ Smokey Bear"
"to make the toy when he came across a cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt refusing to shoot an American black bear cub tied to a tree. The fictional character Winnie-the-Pooh was named after Winnipeg, a female American black bear cub that lived at the London Zoo from 1915 until her death in 1934. An American black bear cub, who in the spring of 1950 was caught in the Capitan Gap Fire, was made into the living representative of Smokey Bear, the mascot of the United States Forest Service. Terrible Ted was a de-toothed and de-clawed American black bear who was trained"
"continue to raise awareness of lesser known wildfire starts. The new artwork was created by Brian Edward Miller, Evan Hecox, Janna Mattia, and Victoria Ying, portraying Smokey Bear in each of their unique styles. Washington, D.C., radio station WMAL personality Jackson Weaver served as the primary voice representing Smokey until Weaver's death in October 1992. In June 2008, the Forest Service launched a new series of public service announcements voiced by actor Sam Elliott, simultaneously giving Smokey a new visual design intended to appeal to young adults. Patrick Warburton provides the voice of an anonymous park ranger. Smokey Bear—and parodies"
"For his appearances in commercials that aired in the 1970s and 1980s, Woodsy was voiced by several different actors, including Sterling Holloway, Barry Gordon, Dave Kimber, and Frank Welker. Several other environmentalism-, conservation- or outdoor-themed comics have appeared over the years, including ""Mark Trail"" and Smokey Bear. ""Woodsy Owl"" appeared as a comic by Gold Key Comics from 1973 to 1976. Woodsy Owl Woodsy Owl is an owl icon for the United States Forest Service most famous for the motto ""Give a hoot—don't pollute!"" His current motto is ""Lend a hand—care for the land!"" Woodsy's target audience is children five"
"Harold Bell Harold Bell (October 5, 1919 – December 4, 2009) was an American marketer and merchandising executive who co-created Woodsy Owl, the iconic mascot of the United States Forest Service. Bell created Woodsy Owl with two U.S. park rangers, Chuck Williams and Glenn Kovar, and another colleague, Betty Hite, for the first Earth Day in 1970. Woodsy Owl is best known for the motto, ""Give a hoot, don’t pollute!"". Harold Bell was born on October 5, 1919, in Union City, New Jersey. He was one of three sons born to his parents, David and Hilda Rosenthal Belsky. His father"
"Woodsy Owl Woodsy Owl is an owl icon for the United States Forest Service most famous for the motto ""Give a hoot—don't pollute!"" His current motto is ""Lend a hand—care for the land!"" Woodsy's target audience is children five to eight years of age, and he was designed to be seen as a mentor to children, providing them with information and advice to help them appreciate nature. Harold Bell of Western Publishing (and the producer of the Smokey Bear public service announcements), along with Glen Kovar and Chuck Williams, originally created the mascot in 1970 as part of a United"
"million children had applied. In 1955, the first children's book was published, followed by many sequels and coloring books. Soon thousands of dolls, toys and other collectibles were on the market. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Ad Council sponsored radio advertisements, featuring Smokey Bear ""in conversation"" with prominent American celebrities such as Bing Crosby, Art Linkletter, Dinah Shore, and Roy Rogers. Smokey's name and image are used for the ""Smokey Bear Awards"", which are awarded by the U.S. Forest Service, the National Association of State Foresters (NASF) and the Ad Council, to ""recognize outstanding service in the prevention of"
"up with a concept to make the big but relatively obscure insurance company's name memorable, one of the agency's art directors stumbled upon the duck idea while walking around Central Park at lunchtime uttering, ""Aflac, Aflac."" He soon realized how much the company's name sounded like a duck's quack. The Aflac Duck character has now starred in more than 30 commercials. In many of these commercials, character actor Earl Billings also appears. The Aflac Duck is enshrined on Madison Avenue's Walk of Fame as one of America's Favorite Advertising Icons. In April 2009, Aflac introduced a new marketing campaign called"
"agency. A number of other animals were considered as the mascot, including a ladybug, rainbow trout, elk and raccoon. An owl was ultimately chosen because of the belief that owls are wise, can see polluters from treetop perches, and can live near cities and towns. Bell and the others envisioned Woodsy Owl with a broad mission, unlike Smokey Bear, who focused almost exclusively on forest fire prevention. The owl would be used to advocate environmental programs and urge American children to fight pollution and help the environment. Woodsy Owl became most famous for his motto, ""Give a hoot, Don’t pollute""."
"fight the blaze, the cub was flown to Santa Fe by New Mexico Ranger Ray Bell for treatment of burns and other injuries. The bear was eventually named Smokey Bear, after the Forest Service's symbol of fire safety on public lands, which had been created in 1944 by artist Harry Rossol. Now the living symbol of fire awareness and prevention, Smokey Bear was flown to the National Zoo in Washington D.C. The subject of hundreds of thousands of visitors and letters, the bear lived at the zoo until his death in 1976. Eulogized by the Washington Post as a transplanted"
"radio host Tokyo Rose. He also faces off against Hermann Göring and Hitler in ""Herr Meets Hare"" (1945), which introduced his well-known reference to Albuquerque as he mistakenly winds up in the Black Forest of 'Joimany' instead of Las Vegas, Nevada. Bugs also appeared in the 1942 two-minute U.S. war bonds commercial film ""Any Bonds Today?"", along with Porky and Elmer. At the end of ""Super-Rabbit"" (1943), Bugs appears wearing a United States Marine Corps dress blue uniform. As a result, the Marine Corps made Bugs an honorary Marine master sergeant. From 1943 to 1946, Bugs was the official mascot"
"the military service branches and state police who still employ it. For Smokey’s 40th anniversary in 1984, he was honored with a U.S. postage stamp that pictured a cub hanging onto a burned tree. It was illustrated by Rudy Wendelin. The commercial for his 50th anniversary portrayed woodland animals about to have a surprise birthday party for Smokey, with a cake with candles. When Smokey comes blindfolded, he smells smoke, not realizing it is birthday candles for his birthday. He uses his shovel to destroy the cake. When he takes off his blindfold, he sees that it was a birthday"
"""recruitment"" image of Uncle Sam was first created by James Montgomery Flagg during World War I. The image was inspired by a British recruitment poster showing Lord Kitchener in a similar pose. It is this image more than any other that has influenced the modern appearance of Uncle Sam: an elderly white man with white hair and a goatee, wearing a white top hat with white stars on a blue band, a blue tail coat, and red-and-white-striped trousers. Flagg's depiction of Uncle Sam was shown publicly for the first time, according to some, on the cover of the magazine ""Leslie's"
"However, prevention policies must consider the role that humans play in wildfires, since, for example, 95% of forest fires in Europe are related to human involvement. Sources of human-caused fire may include arson, accidental ignition, or the uncontrolled use of fire in land-clearing and agriculture such as the slash-and-burn farming in Southeast Asia. In 1937, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated a nationwide fire prevention campaign, highlighting the role of human carelessness in forest fires. Later posters of the program featured Uncle Sam, characters from the Disney movie ""Bambi"", and the official mascot of the U.S. Forest Service, Smokey Bear."
"show the threat Islamic terrorism posed to the United States. This ad was instantly recognized as a copy or an homage to Reagan's. Wirthlin's work on the first Reagan campaign, and particularly this ad, earned him the title ""Adman of the Year"" by ""Advertising Age"" and the ""Washington Post"" called Wirthlin the ""Prince of Pollsters"". Bear in the woods ""Bear"", a television commercial known for and often referred to by its opening line ""There is a bear in the woods"", was created for the 1984 U.S. presidential campaign of Republican Party candidate Ronald Reagan. The commercial featured a grizzly bear"
"an article in the ""Cincinnati Commercial"", the term was modified to ""grand old party"". The first use of the abbreviation is dated 1884. The traditional mascot of the party is the elephant. A political cartoon by Thomas Nast, published in ""Harper's Weekly"" on November 7, 1874, is considered the first important use of the symbol. An alternate symbol of the Republican Party in states such as Indiana, New York and Ohio is the bald eagle as opposed to the Democratic rooster or the Democratic five-pointed star. In Kentucky, the log cabin is a symbol of the Republican Party (not related"
"developed an ad campaign to help educate the public that all fires were detrimental, using a cartoon black bear named Smokey Bear. This iconic firefighting bear can still be seen on posters with the catchphrase ""Only you can prevent forest fires"". Early posters of Smokey Bear misled the public into believing that western wildfires were predominantly human-caused. In Yellowstone, human-caused fires average between 6 and 10 annually, while 35 wildfires are ignited by lightning. Some researchers, as well as some timber companies and private citizens, understood that fire was a natural state of affairs in many ecosystems. Fire would help"
"hope that local communities, with the most accurate information, could prevent them from starting in the first place. On August 13, 1942, Disney's fifth full-length animated motion picture ""Bambi"" premiered in New York City. Soon after, Walt Disney allowed his characters to appear in fire prevention public service campaigns. However, ""Bambi"" was only loaned to the government for a year, so a new symbol was needed. After much discussion, a bear was chosen. His name was inspired by ""Smokey"" Joe Martin, a New York City Fire Department hero who suffered burns and blindness during a bold 1922 rescue. Smokey's debut"
"management, erect a cardinal and gold doghouse around the statue to protect it from possible vandalism. The plaque on the statue reads: The protagonist of the Firesign Theatre album ""Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers"" was named George Leroy Tirebiter, after the dog, and that album's movie-within-a-play, ""High School Madness"" featured a boy named Porgy Tirebiter. George Tirebiter George Tirebiter was the nickname initially given to a dog at the University of Southern California in the 1940s who was the unofficial mascot of the school before becoming the official mascot on October 22, 1947. The nickname was passed"
"playing in the snow, designed the Jack Frost Sugar logo. Beyond illustrations and paintings, he also designed mission pottery that captured the colors and scenery of California. Hutaf painted a mural at the 1939 New York World's Fair. August William Hutaf August ""Gus"" William Hutaf (1874-1942) was an illustrator, commercial artist, and advertising exectuive during the 1900s. His most recognized work is the 1917 World War I recruiting poster for the Tank Corps titled, ""Treat 'Em Rough! Join the Tanks!"" Hutaf was born on February 25 in Hoboken, New Jersey. His year of birth has been listed as being either"
"famous animals to have spent much of his life at the zoo was Smokey Bear, the ""living symbol"" of the cartoon icon created as part of a campaign to prevent forest fires. A black bear cub rescued from a fire, he lived at the zoo from 1950 until his death in 1976. During his time at the zoo, he had millions of visitors and an abundance of personal mail addressed to him – up to 13,000 letters a week – such that the U.S. Post Office designated a special zip code for correspondence addressed to him. During his time at"
"Owney (dog) Owney (ca. 1887 – June 11, 1897), was a Border terrier adopted as the first unofficial postal mascot by the Albany, New York, post office about 1888. The Albany mail professionals recommended the dog to their Railway Mail Service colleagues, and he became a nationwide mascot for 9 years (1888–97). He traveled throughout the 48 contiguous United States and voyaged around the world traveling over 140,000 miles in his lifetime as a mascot of the Railway Post Office and the United States Postal Service. He is best known for being the subject of commemorative activities, including a 2011"
"to a wider audience. Issues #33–41 of ""Walt Disney's Comics and Stories"" published between June 1943 and February 1944 contained a nine-episode series of short silent stories featuring a Gremlin Gus as their star. The first was drawn by Vivie Risto, and the rest of them by Walt Kelly. This served as their introduction to the comic book audience as they are human gremlins who lived in their own village as little flying human people. While Roald Dahl was famous for making gremlins known worldwide, many returning Air Servicemen swear they saw creatures tinkering with their equipment. One crewman swore"
"artist Don LaFontaine. The first new episode aired after his death was dedicated to him. He was replaced by voice actor Wes Johnson, who served in the role until end of the show's run. Notable writers have included Peter Koper and Greg Scott. Logos The show's first logo ran from 1988 to 1990, which consisted of an eagle sitting on a tree branch in a circle, with lines, stars, and zigzags below, and it has ""AMERICA'S MOST WANTED"" written on it. The show's second and final logo ran from 1990 to 2012, which would be used for the rest of"
"with the campaign. He created his most famous work in 1917, a poster to encourage recruitment in the United States Army during World War I. It showed Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer (inspired by a British recruitment poster showing Lord Kitchener in a similar pose) with the caption ""I Want YOU for U.S. Army"". Over four million copies of the poster were printed during World War I, and it was revived for World War II. Flagg used his own face for that of Uncle Sam (adding age and the white goatee), he said later, simply to avoid the trouble"
"were subsequently used by Warner Bros. Cartoons in several World War II cartoons, most notably ""Russian Rhapsody"" and ""Falling Hare"", the latter starring Bugs Bunny. Several variations on gremlin characters were also used in World War II propaganda and as mascots for air units, such as Fifinella, who was used by the WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots) on their patches. The story of gremlins appeared in Issues #33-#41 of ""Walt Disney's Comics and Stories"" published by Walt Disney Productions between June 1943 and February 1944; it contained a nine-episode series of short, silent stories featuring a Gremlin Gus as their"