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Woodland Walk Test for New Camera

Saturday, 05 May 2012 22:05

My wife & I both enjoy photography (on an amateur level) and recently decided it was time to upgrade our exsisting Canon EOS 450D. We loved our 450D and were very happy to buy another Canon camera, so we decided on the Canon EOS 600D.

Making a Feather Sticks for Fire Lighting - Bushcraft Basics

Wednesday, 14 July 2010 07:46

Today we look at making a Feather Stick for fire lighting. Feather sticks help us in numerous ways; if your a little low on tinder making a feather-sticks allows you to turn what would otherwise be larger fuel into a tinder allowing you to start your fire. It's also a handy skill to know if it has been raining a lot and a lot of the dead wood is wet (on the outside) feathersticking allows you to access the dry inner wood and can provide the tinder, kindling & fuel to get your fire started. It is a skill worth practicing and can be enjoyable to do.

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César's Bark Canoe - Bernard Gosselin 1971

Tuesday, 01 June 2010 14:27

This documentary shows how a canoe is built the old way. César Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve north of Montreal, uses only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots and gum. Building a canoe solely from the materials that the forest provides may become a lost art, even among the Native peoples whose traditional craft it is. The film is without commentary but text frames appear on the screen in Cree, French and English.

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Hunting & Shooting Seasons

Friday, 01 April 2011 10:36

Quarry Species & Shooting Seasons

There are a number of gamebirds, waterfowl (ducks, geese and waders) and other bird species, as well as mammals, which can be shot legally. For many there is a close season when it is illegal to shoot them, and this helps to ensure that they are able to breed successfully and move between breeding and wintering grounds. The bird quarry species and their open seasons in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are shown below.