Wilderness Survival
| Field | fundamental of human existence |
| Went Obsolete | when people developed unwarranted faith in technology |
| Made Obsolete By | general ignorance of a lemming population |
| Knowledge Assumed | life experience in the “real” (natural) world |
| When useful | In the event of any societal breakdown, technological failure, navigation error, or for recreational purposes |
Wilderness survival skills are many and varied, and a complete explanation of them is well beyond the scope of a single wiki article. In fact, one could argue that the accumulated practical knowledge of any civilization or human society constitutes a set of wilderness survival skills, since wilderness is defined under most bodies of law as a sufficiently large area of land where human impact is at least superficially unnoticeable. So by definition, anywhere can revert to wilderness given the absence of human impact.
Collapse of a society, as described over several human socio-technical eras by Jared Diamond, is likely to occur again.
A sampling of wilderness survival skills include:
- Knowledge of native flora and fauna
- Foraging
- Hunting
- Fire buillding
- Navigation by terrain features and astronomical features
- Woodcraft
- Indigenous shelter construction
- Cooking and wild food preparation
- Hide tanning
- Rope making
- Knots
Books have been written to teach each of these skills. Each is a in-depth topic in and of itself.
