How to tap a pine tree to collect pine tree sap

Tapping sap from a pine tree

Pine tree sap can be tapped and used to make paint and resin products. It makes a great water-proof sealant for buckets and tarps and can be used as an adhesive. Pine tree sap can also be used as stove fuel and it can be boiled and mixed with ash or sand and compressed to…

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Ontario Sasquatch group captures eerie sasquatch vocalizations

Sasquatch Ontario has released an audio recording that they captured as part of their “Michigan Recording Project”. The recordings consist of screams, whoops, grunts, huffs, hisses, jabbering, very low guttural growling sounds, and on occasion extremely quiet “rumbling”. There are also several incidents of loud branch breaking and tree knocking that occur during the vocalizations.

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How to build an elevated, raised Bog Ken shelter in the wilderness

Overview of a elevated wilderness shelter

For many reasons it is sometimes necessary or advisable to have one’s shelter raised off the ground. Especially is this true in the more tropical countries where noxious serpents and insects abound. To build a raised survival shelter in the wilderness, we must first erect an elevated platform. This is made by setting four forked…

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