A disaster has just turned your world upside down.  You are in the middle of an earthquake, a tsunami or forest fire and chaos is all around you. Now what? What will you do next? by Leon Pantenburg Let’s hope you have thought about this in advance, and that you have a plan for dealing [...]

A disaster has just happened and what is the first thing to do? Well, this is not the time to draw a blank, and have no idea of what must happen next if you want to survive. This book may help. by Leon Pantenburg If you’re like 90 percent of Americans – you don’t have a [...]

How do you encapsulate a survivor’s mentality into a personalized model that can be duplicated and personalized? That’s what John A. Heatherly taught in “The Survival Template.” Now, Heatherly expands on that concept in his latest publication “The Medicine Symbol.” You can sign up to get your own copy free by entering this pre-Christmas giveaway. [...]

Most of us can’t take all the survival field classes and seminars we’d like to, and only a fool would create a real emergency to see how he might react! But these five books will help you develop the most important part of any wilderness survival kit: the survival mindset!

Amanda Ripley’s book “The Unthinkable” is not about disaster recovery: It’s about what happens in the midst of one – before emergency personnel arrive and structure is imposed on the loss. It’s about the human reaction to disaster and how you should act if you want to survive.

The ability build a fire under survival conditions may save your life. The inability may cost your life! by Leon Pantenburg I met Peter Kummerfeldt several years ago at the Deschutes County Sportsmans Show, in Redmond, OR after I dropped in during his “Myths of Survival” presentation. With no idea of who this guy was, or [...]

The fertilizer hits the fan and you may have to evacuate your area. Immediately, the roads and highways will be jammed with unprepared refugees. So what is your plan, to get your family to safety, and do you have a vehicle you can depend on? In his latest book: Bug Out Vehicles and Shelters; Build [...]

The fertilizer hits the fan and you may have to evacuate your area. Immediately, the roads and highways will be jammed with unprepared refugees, most of them fleeing in panic to go somewhere – anywhere – else. A prepper will be prepared for this eventuality, hopefully, and not join the mindless crowd. But there may [...]

The season for cold weather camping is here! So how do you prepare and gear up to stay comfortable when the temperatures drop?

If you are a prepper/survivalist, and preparing for any eventuality, you need to know how to utilize a large animal. Butchering and meat cutting could be a necessary, and much-needed skill.