Whether you are hiking deep in the wilderness or just sitting out on your deck in the Summer night, the Thermacell Backpacker Mosquito Repeller is for you! It is portable, easy to assemble and use a tiny amount of propane to fuel a repel mosquitoes around you for hours and hours! Mosquitoes, as you know,…

Pine trees are kind of the “hidden survival tools” that exist almost everywhere. It virtually does not matter the setting, pine trees are present in rural, suburban and urban settings, arid and moist areas, North, South, East and West, mountains, valleys and everywhere in between. There simply are very little areas that the pine tree…

Nature in its purest form is a constant struggle. If something is not trying to kill you and eat you, the weather does its best to make life miserable. It is not called the “survival of the fittest” for nothing. Spiders and wasps do not escape this harsh reality. This is particularly true when you…

As preppers, we often love reading about history, since it’s from history that we have learned not to repeat the same mistakes of the past. We also have learned how to thrive and survive in the present. Even if a catastrophic situation should arise, we can look to the past and think about how it…

Freedom means different things to different people. For some, it means doing what you want to do within reason when you want to do it. For others, it means being able to do what you want with your property as long as it does not interfere with some other person’s will to do what they…

  When you are out in the wilderness, pitching that tent, making your comfy campfire, and hiking through the woods to get to that fresh water creek, you know to keep your eyes open. Simply, an outdoorsman does not know what wild beasts might be out there in the deep dark woods ready to do…

Whether you have been diagnosed with high blood pressure or suddenly develop hypertension during a crazy life-changing situation — it is no fun. Those who already visited their doctor and have been given the bad news are probably already on medication. However, after a collapse, when that medication runs out the finding of a working…

It is sobering to think about places, cities, and ancient artifacts that have been around practically since the beginning of time. Yet, it also makes us sad when finding out these very things may be at an end during our lifetime. Yet, it also makes us sad when finding out these very things may be…

1. Rattlesnake According to the San Diego Zoo, rattlesnakes can handle high elevation and are found everywhere from sea level to 11,000 feet (3,353 m). Rattlesnakes are predators that live in many habitats where they hunt small animals such as birds and rodents. Rattlesnakes are the leading cause of snakebite injuries in North America. However,…

The term Get Out Of Dodge (GOOD) refers to the American Old West and Dodge City, Kansas, when it was little more than a lawless free-for-all. While Hollywood has played up the mayhem and violence in places like Dodge, it was still a pretty rough place early on and no place you wanted to raise…

Unless you live in an urban area, chances are there are some worn and used tires hanging around your home or the neighborhood somewhere. In many locations they are expensive to get rid of legally and getting rid of them illegally is not an option, so they end up being put away in an old…

  We rather enjoy looking at certain maps. They tell us so many things, including where restaurants and parks are if you are on a road-trip. But when you are looking at a nuclear target map that enjoyment pretty much goes out of the window! It is really rather intriguing, learning about where you live…

Assume you have just endured what to you seems like an epic survival event – a hurricane or tornado, earthquake or even a manmade disaster. Are you prepared? Really? Does your stock of survival supplies really meet all your needs? Or is it lacking in key things you overlooked? A Civil War General once stated…