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Five Ways Foraging Skills Can Improve Your Life
The odds are that at some point in your life you will be affected by a natural or man-made disaster. Or even an unexpected injury deep into the woods. Maybe you’ll have great support and maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll have immediate access to food and medical supplies. Maybe you…
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Five Ways Foraging Skills Can Improve Your Life
The odds are that at some point in your life you will be affected by…
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Cold Water Fishing Safety: What Actually Kills Anglers (And What Doesn’t)
Cold Water Doesn’t Care How Good an Angler You Are The angler who drowns in…
SURVIVAL TIPS & HOW TO's
Leon Pantenburg writes a survival skills blog with tips and techniques to help typical folks survive an unexpected urban or wilderness emergency, using common sense and emergency preparedness training. Topics include survival knives, survival clothing and camp cooking, making a fire, emergency shelter, hunting and fishing, competent survival skills and survival gear reviews.








