The Materiality of Beloved Smokey Bear and 75 Years of Wildlife Prevention

Organized by

Julia Blakely,

Rare Book Catalog Librarian,

Smithsonian Institution Libraries

,

Pamela Baker-Masson,

National Zoological Park

and

Jennifer Zazo-Brown,

National Museum of African American History and Culture

,

Introduction

Julia Blakely

and

Jennifer Zazo-Brown

,

Welcome

Pamela Baker-Masson

,

Speakers

Gwen Beavans,

Wildfire Prevention and Mitigation Branch,

USDA Forest Service

,

Managing the National Smokey Bear Wildfire Prevention Program

Tad Bennicoff,

Archivist,

Smithsonian Institution Archives

,

Smokey Bear at the Zoo and in the Archives

Susan Fugate,

Head of Special Collections,

National Agricultural Library

,

Smokey Bear in the Stacks: The Collections of the National Agricultural Library

Valerie Neal,

Curator, Space History Department,

National Air and Space Museum

,

Smokey Bear Goes to Space

Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira,

Ecologist and Leader of ForestGEO, Ecosystems & Climate Program ,

Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

,

Forests and Fire in an Era of Climate Change