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.

The number one concern of all five Red Cross Chapters in Oregon is how to react to the  inevitable earthquake that is bound to occur about 75 miles off the Oregon coast. Projected to be as bad as a level 9, it will have a profound impact on some 13 million people along the California, [...]

Ask a preparedness expert: What is the first thing to do to get started on preparing your home and family for a disaster? Chances are, that expert will tell you to start a discussion about the topic.

Author Leah Waarvik is a search-and-rescue professional who works as part of a canine team to find missing people in the wilderness. She wrote “I Sit and Stay” after hearing stories of children who were lost and unprepared. The book is intended to initiate a discussion between adults and children about the main teaching points. The title says it all: Teach your lost children to stay in one place and await rescue

SurvivalCommonSense.com was featured on the Survival Mom Radio show on July 14. The topic was campfire cooking with foil.

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Sign up for our Email Newsletter The Survival Template by John A. Heatherly How do you encapsulate a survivor’s mentality into a personalized model that can be duplicated and personalized? That’s what John A. Heatherly teaches in his new book “The Survival Template.” by Leon Pantenburg So you are in a SHTF (Sewage Hit The [...]

Ahead of the soldiers lay “Fortress Europe.” Behind them was the rising sea. At stake, was the final outcome of World War II. Today marks the 66th anniversary of D-Day. I hope to honor my friend, Bob Shotwell, 86, of La Pine, Oregon, by posting his recollections.