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Backyard Rabbit Keeping, Part 1/15 – Why Keep Rabbits?
This article is meant to be an introduction to the prospect of raising rabbits on a small scale for personal use (and perhaps a bit more). We'll be starting by…
Basic Trapping and Snaring Techniques
For an unarmed survivor, or when the sound of a rifle shot could be a problem, trapping or snaring wild game is a good alternative. Several well-placed traps have the…
High Detail Current & Future Global Groundwater Map
During the past decades the interest in groundwater increased considerably due to water shortage problems on local, regional and even global levels. The use of groundwater is considered as an…
Basic Food Procurement in the Wild
After water, man's most urgent requirement is food. In contemplating virtually any hypothetical survival situation, the mind immediately turns to thoughts of food. Unless the situation occurs in an arid…
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Firesteel
Firesteel is a piece of high-carbon steel used for striking a spark, usually kept in a tinderbox together with flint and tinder. From the Iron Age onwards, the use of…
The Amazing Yurt, A Time Tested Shelter
A yurt is a portable, felt-covered, wood lattice-framed dwelling structure used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia. The word yurt is originally from the Turkic word meaning "dwelling…
Entomophagy… Insects as food
Although in Western cultures there is a general aversion to being around insects, let alone eating them, in many parts of the world (and also increasingly in the West) the…