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Six Scenarios in Which You Will Need Food Storage
Guest article by Lee FlynnIf you've ever thought about people who have emergency food storage, the chances are that you picture paranoid people with emergency bomb shelters and bunkers full of food and...
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How To Choose The Best Wool Pants for Winter Survival Clothing
One of the first winter camping items recommended to the Boy Scouts in our troop is wool pants. Here is how to pick the ones that will suit your needs best.by Leon PantenburgClick here to buy survival...
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How To Keep Children Safe In the Outdoors
In an instant, the backpacking trip in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains turned from an idyllic family outing to every parent’s nightmare. One moment, my son Daniel, 16 months old at the time, was playing...
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Six Types of Maps You Need For Emergency Urban Evacuation
What kind of maps do you need to function in urban and/or wilderness situations? What happens during a disaster where you are forced to evacuate and need to travel by road, then go off road and...
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How To Start a Fire With a Snowmobile
Suppose you just did something really stupid - like going snowmobiling and forgetting your survival gear in the truck. Your sled breaks down, or you get stuck, and you need to start a fire for...
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Survival Recipe: Heatherly’s Basic Jambalaya
Try this simple, tasty southern rice dish that can be cooked outside in a cast iron Dutch oven.Guest Article Submitted by John A. Heatherly(APN's Leon Patenburg's note: I find that many survival types...
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Evaluating Back-Up Magnetic Compasses
Do you carry a back-up compass when you leave the trail head? How accurate is it? Here are some of your options.Guest article by Blake MillerFrequently in my back-country land navigation class, I am...
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Understanding Gas Leaks
Understanding a gas leak could save your family and your home from extensive fire damage. Know the signs & how to respond.Guest Article by: Ben Vaughn Picture Source: Heintzs PropaneGas leaks in...
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Is Insurance Part of Your Preparedness Plan?
Picture: fishtankpet.comMany articles and plans for preparedness talk about fire starting, water, shelter, and food storage. Those are very good topics that should be learned as part of our survival...
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Home Safety for You and Your Kids
Whether your baby is starting to crawl or you have young nieces, nephews or grandchildren who visit often, you quickly realize how many household items can actually be quite dangerous. That glass...
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Survival Recipe: Squirrel Spaghetti
Squirrels are the second-most harvested small game animals in the United States, next to rabbits. Here's how to make a delicious spaghetti dish out of squirrels.by Leon Pantenburg Squirrel hunting is a...
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Review: The Bear Grylls Ultimate Survival Knife
What are some of the attributes of a good survival knife? There are many things to look for, and popularity may be one indication. The best selling knife in the world is the Bear Grylls Ultimate...
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How To Use Modern Cloth Diapers (Not your mother’s cloth diaper!)
Photo Credit: GroBabyDiapers. The modern solution to stinky baby butts. In some cultures, it's normal to simply hold the baby away from mom while he does his business, but in our culture, this is not...
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Driving Safely During a Tornado
Photo Credit: erh.noaa.govDriving during a tornado warning is an extremely dangerous situation, so make sure you are prepared if you find yourself driving when a tornado strikes. While the best advice...
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Building a Mobile Earthquake Prep Kit
Photo credit: geeksugar.comPreparing for a disaster like an earthquake seems like an oxymoron since one can’t ever really prepare for an earthquake. However, one thing you can do is put together a...
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3 Important Questions To Ask Regarding Heirloom Seeds
Long-term preparedness is a robust cycle of planning and design.Photo: gmofreedc.orgMany people who work on their individual plans store up and stock food and water in an attempt to create a...
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The Cornerstone & The Keystone
It was Reinhold Niebuhr who once said "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary" (The Children of Light and the Children...
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What To Know About Radon Contamination
Photo; prlog.org What is Radon?You’ve probably heard the word radon tossed around with intonations of caution, apprehension, or all out doom. There is cause for this. Radon is a colorless, tasteless,...
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Practical Preparedness
Photo Credit: CNN.comMany people think that all Preppers do what they do because they think that the end of the world is coming. While this may be true for some, many preppers also prepare for...
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Bartering Supplies That You Haven’t Thought Of; And Some You Have!
Photo; theexceptionalcreative.comWhen I think of bartering supplies my mind automatically goes to a SHTF scenario. There are a lot of lists out there for such scenes, but ultimately what you choose to...
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