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Tree ID 101

By on May 10, 2013 in Books, Flora, Master Woodsman, Nature & Conservation

Most of us have been there… on that nature walk with a local expert who points out 20 or so different trees and plants giving them a brief description while you feverishly take notes. The notes will last, informing you about that tree; and you may have even have snapped a picture or pressed a […]

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USING THE SIBERIAN ELM FOR BUSHCRAFT

By on February 27, 2013 in Books, Flora, Food, Master Woodsman, Nature & Conservation, Woodcraft

To most it’s a weed tree. Considered useless and unwanted. To me, it’s a part of the heartland now.  A permanent fixture across wind breaks and homesteads as well as in the cities and for Bushcraft.  It was after the dust bowl that started in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, that these trees were widely planted […]

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Beauty Berry; Herbal Bug Repellent by Darryl Patton

By on February 25, 2013 in Master Woodsman

DEET (N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide) is a wonderful product! On several trips to the jungles of the Amazon as well as countless hikes here in the Deep South, I have found this bug repellent to be just the thing to keep biting insects at a safe distance. DEET was introduced by the U.S. Army as an insecticide back in […]

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