Predator Awareness in the Rural & Urban Interface Mountain Lion photos by Mark Wienert Mountain Lion Facts The mountain lion, Felis concolor, or cat of one color, is also known as cougar, panther, ghost cat, catamount, and puma. About the Mountain Lion The mountain lion is the largest feline carnivore of North America. Adults are tawny to chocolate-brown […]
The Best Bow Drill Woods
Best woods for the bow drill create a hot coal faster. Imagine you’re shipwrecked like Tom Hanks in Castaway. Stranded on a Pacific island with no matches or lighter. Or, lost in east Texas. You can’t boil your drinking water or cook the mouse you trapped for your survival stew without fire. What are you going […]
Is Corporate Stealing your Life?
Is corporate stealing your life? Your wife, husband, children, your spirit! If so then you must read on to save your life! I have a remedy for the corporate scourge…and I give you permission to use this remedy any time you wish. Is Corporate stealing your life? Yes, of course it it is. The more […]
Benefits of Wild Edibles
Benefits of Wild Edibles by Bethany Staffieri Foraging for wild food is an ancient practice. Our forefathers knew this practice to be a direct physical connection to the Earth. A connection that brings a person to the deepest appreciation and understanding of the natural world. Benefits of Wild Edibles Today’s modern lifestyle interrupts this foraging tradition […]
The Amazing Blue Elderberry
I am a pushover for the blue elderberry. Sambucus cerulea and S. racemosa, an amazing shrub that offers the knowledgeable forager a tremendous bounty of uses. Parts of the blue elderberry are used for making friction fire, musical instruments, hunting weapons, and traps. And late summer and autumn prepare the ripe blue elderberries for a sweet and […]