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When you have been hiking or working in a wooded, grassy or weedy area, you may come home with an unwanted “hitchhiker.” It is tick season throughout much of the country. Ticks are classified as arachnids (the classification that includes spiders) and feed on animal and human hosts. They belong to a group of mites, ...

Anyone living in a forested area with sufficient acreage and access should consider a wood-burning stove as a heating source. The challenge, though, is knowing which wood burns best, hottest and the longest. Some soft woods like birch and pine ...

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that ...

Without a doubt, the main things people think of when considering buying rural land for an off-grid property are size, location and cost. But there are several other steps and factors you’ll need to consider to ascertain if the area ...

On a fundamental, biological level, water is the most critical, ingestible resource for survival of most any organism, including humans. The average person engaged in average activity in a temperate climate can live for three days without water. No exceptions. ...

Editor’s note: This story is the first of two parts.  It can happen to any of us: A car breaks down, we make a wrong turn, some bad weather moves in while we’re traveling and all of a sudden, we ...

Have you ever had “city folk” ask to hunt your ground? It happens a lot around here. I have let many people hunt our ground over the years. Sometimes it worked out well… other times not so well. Let me ...

A recent tragedy on the Ozark trail has really touched me and gotten me thinking. A thirty-six-year-old father who was an Air Force veteran and his two sons, ages ten and eight, died of exposure after getting turned around on ...

Ground sign awareness is a military term that is mainly used in the context of spotting improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The basic premise is that tampering with the ground in some manner is easily spotted – disturbed ground looks substantially ...

Hunting is a centuries-old pastime that once used to be required to survive. A hunter would have to procure the family’s food on a weekly basis, and thus that hunter became intimate with the local terrain. It was expected that ...