“ America’s most famous bear was born near here, in the Lincoln National Forest. Smokey weighed less than 10 pounds when firefighters rescued him in 1950, and it took weeks to nurse him to health. Although Smokey spent the rest of his life at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., he was buried at Smokey Bear Historical Park, in lovely Capitan. Lynn goes into Junior Forest Ranger flashbacks at the Smokey Bear Museum while I check us into the Smokey Bear Motel next door. (FYI, it’s Smokey Bear, not Smokey the Bear; an act of Congress clarified this point.)
http://www.budgettravel.com/bt-dyn/content/article/2005/06/04/AR2005060400713.html
