It's been mostly smoky in July with the wildfires burning in North State forests and in Oregon. Here's what to know.

AccuWeather meteorologist Paul Pastelok told USA TODAY that the wildfires are likely to continue well into October in Canada, ...

Here's an update on a firefighter who became sick from the heat and another with head injury, both while battling the Green ...

Smokey Bear, who's turning a whopping 70 years old Aug. 9, began his career in 1944 with the slogan, "Only you can prevent forest fires." But other than that, the changing times have done little ...

Who weighs 300 pounds, wears a green campaign hat, blue jeans and a belt, and walks around with a shovel? It isn’t Denver Pyle, it’s Smokey Bear. “Smokey Bear has a big job caring for the ...

Smokey Bear was born on Aug. 9, 1944, when the U.S. Forest Service and the Ad Council agreed that a fictional bear would be the symbol for a fire prevention campaign.

Smoky New York isn’t climate change — it’s bad forest management By . ... Logging and other commercial practices that used to self-interestedly tend to forest health have been phased out.

Smokey Bear’s public service ad was created at the height of World War II in 1944. The U.S. Forest Service had been fighting forest fires for years, but the attack on Pearl Harbor brought a ...

Smokey's critics have even included a couple of U.S. Forest Service researchers who published a paper, "Be careful what you wish for: The legacy of Smokey Bear," in 2007.

A Smokey the Bear forest fire prevention sign stands in front of snow blanketing the Sierra Nevada mountains after recent storms increased the snowpack on February 23, 2024 near Bishop, California.