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Master Woodsman covers topics like primitive living skills, self-reliance, homesteading, bushcraft, classic camping, and modern survival
Two great conversations about the upcoming Global Bushcraft Symposium which will be hosted in Alberta, Canada June 10 – 14. The first conversation is a podcast with Mors Kochanski and Jonathan McArthur hosted by Paul Kirtley. The second is a YouTube video with David Wescott hosted by Dale Kiselyk. Now imagine you having the conversation in person with Mors, David and many others.
While the website (linked at bottom) offers specific information on the location, initial itinerary, more than a dozen themed camps, as well as a frequently updated list of speakers; as one of the organizers, I thought I would offer my perspective on the event. And if you will indulge me, I’d like to begin that conversation now by offering several reasons as to ‘why’ have GBS, starting with an excerpt found in the 1912 edition of The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore, by Ernest Thompson Seton. It demonstrates how ‘bushcrafters’ have had a long-term understanding of a survivor’s physiology, the physics of the environment (and related skills), and how all that has a direct relationship on one’s psychology — Seton knew survival knowledge in its proper context displaces fear; he also recognized fear as the greatest danger before the word ‘survival’ even existed. That being said, within bushcraft, knowledge is very often taken for granted as to its origin and context; and there is no amount of emphasis that can truly express how thankful we should be to those that came before us and shared that knowledge for the greater good — this will be recognized and discussed with the best of intentions at GBS.
This past summer, Wilderness Living Skills/Survival Instructor and Author Mors Kochanski received one of the highest awards in Canada, Honorary Canadian Ranger into the 4th Canadian Ranger Patrol Group. The other people to receive this are the Duke and Duchess of York along with Former Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper
While enjoying some much needed alone time this past weekend in the Chattahoochee National Forest, I was cutting through a stretch of woods with tulip tree, white pine, hickory, and oak. In searching for a better cap than my first pick, I was drawn to an especially large hickory nut among the fall leaf litter. Perhaps it was because I had whistles on my mind, but when I pulled the husk off the hickory nut Interestingly, I don’t recall ever seeing the husk of a hickory nut used as a whistle in any outdoor literature — a quick internet search didn’t provide any results either.