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How to Make Petroleum Jelly Fire Starters

Every survival kit should contain fire starters as an aid in making fires during adverse conditions or emergencies. This Survival Topic shows you how to make your own fire starters that are superior to many on the market by using commonly available materials...
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Balsam Fir Pitch

At first glance you probably wouldn't get very excited about balsam fir pitch. But when it comes to wilderness survival this simple material can be utilized in a surprising variety of ways...
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February 1 2008

During a winter storm we explore a deer trail through deep snow, cross an ice covered stream without falling through, and become spruce trapped...

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Make Your Own Warm Winter Mitts

In high latitudes and elevations your winter survival gear requires warm winter mittens. For many that means expensive high tech mountaineering mitts that seem to fail much too easily.

Here is how you can put together your own very high quality winter mitts using inexpensive natural materials you can find locally...

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Rambo 4 Knife

With the new Rambo movie comes the Rambo 4 knife. A step in the right direction as far as survival knives go but still a false impression of what a truely good survival knife is...
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January 25 2008

The medicinal uses of the Chaga tinder fungus, an 1890's recipe for meat preservation, and assorted survival and bushcraft quotations.
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The Chaga; Nature's Medicinal Mushroom

In the high northern forests of the world grows the chaga mushroom, famous for its storehouse of disease fighting phytochemicals. Oh, and its also the true tinder fungus...
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January-24-2008

Today's Survival Topics: Roald Amundsen's survival gear advice.
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Swedish Firesteel

Firesteel is the modern day steel on steroids that produces a shower of sparks merely by scraping it with a sharp object.

Swedish Firesteels have become popular pieces of survival gear and for good reason...

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Coyote Bags a Partridge

A coyote catches a partridge and shows us how an expert survives in the wilderness...
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