Professional Bushcraft, Wilderness Journeys And College-Level Immersion Programs Since 1999
Skill - Journey - Craft - Nature - Culture - Sustainability - Self
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Professional Bushcraft, Wilderness Journeys And College-Level Immersion Programs Since 1999 Skill - Journey - Craft - Nature - Culture - Sustainability - Self |
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Below are a series of articles on wilderness survival and general wilderness skills, as well as gear checklists and trip planning forms. At the bottom of the page are links to other articles on the web with information on building outdoor gear, using and maintaining wood and canvas canoes, and survival. More articles and links are added regularly. Student Papers, Logbooks And Field Journals
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• Fall 2007 Wilderness Bushcraft Semester Final Paper by Russ Venditto |
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• A Hole In The Woods vs. A Hole In The Earth by Paul Sveum |
• Survival by Doug Leland |
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• Survival Taught and Learned by David Ader |
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• Acorns and Acorn Bread by Dan Fisher |
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• The Importance of Traditional Woodcraft Skills |
• The Evolution of Modern Camping Skills, Attitudes, and Techniques |
• From Woodcraft to Leave No Trace |
• Observations Of A Naturalist by Boyd Shaffer. Online illustrated articles about nature by a man who knows it well. I studied the field botany of southcentral Alaska in Boyd's class at Kenai Peninsula College in 1996. Future generations of naturalists would be well served by reading everything he's written. |
• New Hampshire Natural Heritage Bureau Lots of good fact sheets and information on the flora and fauna of the granite state |
• Natural Community Systems of New Hampshire (1.6 MB) |
• Natural Communities of New Hampshire (5.1 MB) |
On our travels around the web we've found numerous podcasts on learning, the natural world, and other topics that we want to share with our students. They're listed here. |
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• Paul Stamets: How Mushrooms Can Save The World |
• Exercise And The Brain: Dr. John Ratey on The Brain Science Podcast. Dr. Ratey is the author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science Of Exercise and the Brain. |
• Innate Numbers: Radiolab from WNYC examines how we experience numbers. There is a section near the beginning where they discuss that the way modern western cultures understand numbers, as integers, is a human construct, different from how babies and aboriginal peoples understand numbers, as logarithms. |
• Abstract Thinking And Decision Making: Radiolab from WNYC examines abstraction and decision making in an episode titled, "Killing Babies, Saving the World." It starts with a disturbing question, then uses it to examine how our brains make decisions. |
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