Dangerous animals – complete guide to deadly creatures in the wilderness

The threat from animals is less than from other parts of the environment. However, common sense tells you to avoid encounters with lions, bears, and other large or dangerous animals. Move carefully through their environment. Caution may prevent unexpected meetings.

Poisonous Plants – an overview of plant poisoning and how to avoid being poisoned

Successful use of plants in a survival situation depends on positive identification. Knowing poisonous plants is as important as knowing edible plants.

Survival fire principles (introduction to “firecraft”)

In survival situations, the ability to build and light a fire can make the difference between life and death. You can use fire to purify water, sterilize bandages, signal for rescue, drive animals from their homes, efficiently modify the landscape, smoke and preserve food, softening tar for adhesives, making charcoal for medicinal purposes, and provide…

All outdoorsmen or survivalists need a rope knots tying guide to ensure they are familiar with a variety of knots and the specific purpose for each knot type.

Survival sewing – complete guide to sewing and repair in the wilderness.

Possessing the knowledge and ability to sew is an essential toolset if you are to survive in the wild for any extended period of time. Clothing, shelter, shoes, and tools may need to be repaired and often those repairs require basic sewing technique.

It is not uncommon, especially in a wilderness survival situation where you possess limited supplies, to encounter situations where a longer length of rope is needed. Rope splices are used to splice shorter lengths of rope together to form a single, larger length of rope. Good rope splices hold tight without impacting the natural shape…

Hitches Hitches are used to tie a rope to another object such as a barrel, pole, post, stake, or bundled cloth (e.g., tarp). A hitch holds well due to the friction set up between the two surfaces of the rope being pressed together (which is why hitches with slippery rope or wire are no effective).…

Simple tower structure built with lashings

Lashings are used to firmly hold together two or more spars (poles, masts, scaffolding, legs, trestles, etc.) There are numerous survival construction projects that require lashings for construction.

A Native American Navajo woman weaving with a loom

About survival weaving Weaving takes yarns or threads and forms them as fabric or cloth. The process differs from knitting, crocheting, felting, and braiding or plaiting. All elements of rope work incorporate weaving or interlocking of strands by passing over and under each other. On a smaller scale, weaving can be used in the wild…