A salute to Smokey Bear

Where are you Smokey Bear? We need you.

When I was growing up my father worked at, and retired from, the U.S. Forest Service. Smokey Bear was a God-like figure and we highly respected him.

My Pa taught us well and he would go to schools to talk to children, visit campgrounds with speeches and movies about the forests. Do you have your ax, bucket, and shovel? Don't play with matches and put your campfires dead out.

We need to bring the Smokey Bear issue back. I still have my 60-year-old "Smokey Teddy Bear," and he is special to me.

KATHY NEUMANN

Clark Fork