Congratulations to Ken Larsen of Salt Lake City, winner of The Salt Lake Tribune's cartoon caption contest this week.

Thanks to all who submitted captions. The winners and the runners-up were chosen by the newspaper's political cartoonist, Pat Bagley, who draws the contest cartoons.

We invite you to enter the contest next Sunday when we publish a new Bagley cartoon in search of a caption and instructions on how to send us your entries.

Here are the runners-up:

"I don't know if bears poop in the woods, but Ralph sure does!"

Jim Sefandonakis

Salt Lake City

"The Smokey the Bear campaign seems to be more proactive than when I was a kid."

Stu Foster

Kearns

"In recent years he's become much more proactive."

Stephen Hust

Brigham City

"When you ask for the right to 'bear arms' in a dry forest ..."

Carina Kuesterman Dillon

Tooele