This Motley Crew of Outdoors Mascots Helped Generations of Americans Embrace Nature

If you live in the United States (and maybe even if you don’t), you’ve heard of Smokey Bear, but how about Spunky Squirrel? Woody the Log? Howdy the Good Outdoors Manners Raccoon? The great outdoors doesn’t need a marketing gimmick—and yet, these mascots exist (or once existed), and we’re not mad about it.  Over the […]