It's been awhile - my focus has been elsewhere, recently, but I think it is time to come back to this.
This morning I was reading a book that I recently obtained, "The Knowledge; How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch" by Lewis Darnell, and paused, thinking about what I had read. To survive conditions that he imagines could arise (collapse resulting from a pandemic), I am thinking that the approach that Arthur Haines suggested could be the ticket. In the event of a collapse scenario centered around failure of societal structures, (as opposed to an epidemic), the 'prepper' approach - stockpiling supplies and planning to defend them with weapons- seems unlikely to lead to success (survival) - if the perception is that you have things that others want, the likelihood is that someone, or a group of someones will come along and take what you have (or at least give it a good try), leading to much unpleasantness. Haines, a re-wilding advocate, suggests that carrying ultimately portable survival information and skills in your head would allow you to escape and get to an area where you can live off of the landscape.
With this in mind, I went to the Maine Primitive Skills school website. They have put up a great series of videos: Here is one that I just watched on the Winter Trees: The balsam fir.
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