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Maclaren Summit, Interior Alaska

Below are a series of articles on wilderness survival and general wilderness skills, as well as trip journals from such places as Maine, Alaska, and the Florida Everglades. 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
From Long-Term Immersion Programs

•  Fall 2007 Wilderness Bushcraft Semester Final Paper by Russ Venditto  

•  Peter Frost's Winter/Spring 2004 ESSP Journals

•  A Hole In The Woods vs. A Hole In The Earth by Paul Sveum  

  

Articles

•  What Is Earth Skills Education?  

•  Survival by Doug Leland

•  Survival Taught and Learned by David Ader

•  Wilderness Survival - A Realistic Look

•  June 1999 Basic Wilderness Skills Course Journal

•  Notes on Choosing a Competent Instructor

•  Population and Environment  

•  Acorns and Acorn Bread by Dan Fisher

•  The Myth of the Non-Consumptive User  

•  27 Laws of Ecology  


From the Web - Bushcraft

•  The Importance of Traditional Woodcraft Skills
by Paul Van Horn

•  The Evolution of Modern Camping Skills, Attitudes, and Techniques
by Paul Van Horn

•  From Woodcraft to Leave No Trace
by James Morton Turner  

 

From the Web - Nature

•  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) 

  

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