Resources

Wilderness Survival

ASSOCIATIONS

• American Red Cross - Emergency preparedness, disaster planning
  
• AIRCAV - on-line survival manual
  
• Desert USA - Tips and techniques for desert survival
  
• Equipped TO Survive - Outdoor gear, survival equipment, and survival techniques website, equipment evaluations, equipment lists, publications, training, on-line survival manual, survival and ESAR links,
  
• Federal Emergency Management Agency - Disaster preparedness training, exercises, publications and information,
  
• Mountain Rescue Association - mountain rescuer resources, events, membership
  

MANUFACTURERS

• Emergency Packs
  

• Aboriginal Living Skills School
  
• Boulder Outdoor Survival School
  
• MPS Outdoors
  
• North American Rescue Institute
  
• Survival Guide
  
• The Attitude Of Survival
  
• Wilderness Survival & Primitive Skills
  
• Wilderness Survival Guide
  
• Wilderness Survival
  

PUBLICATIONS

• "Outdoor Skills Instruction Survival", Boy Scouts of America, No 33029, 1991, ISBN 0-8395-3029-3, Seminar on map and compass, survival shelters and survival food
  
• "Tom Brown's Field Guide to Wilderness Survival", Tom Brown and Brandt Morgan, Berkley Books, 1983 Basic principles and techniques of surviving in the wilderness.
  
• "Peterson's Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants", Lee Allen Peterson, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1977, ISBN 0-395-31870-X (pbk) A field guide to the identification and use of edible wild plants.
  
• "How to Stay Alive in the Woods", Bradford Angier, Fireside, 1984, ISBN 0-684-83101-5 A good basic book on ho to survive in the wilderness - without equipment.
  
• "Edible Wild Plants", Oliver Perry Medsger, Collier Books, 1966, ISBN 0-02-080910-7 Authoritative, guide to identification and preparation of North American edible wild plants.
  
• "The Basic Essentials of Edible Wild Plants and Useful Herbs", Jim Meuninck, ICS Books, Inc., 1988, ISBN 0-934802-41-6 How to identify and prepare Edible Plants
  
• "Pocket Weather Forecaster", Weaher Trends Inc., 1974, Easy to use guide for weather prediction 12 to 36 hours in advance (season and region specific)
  
• "The Basic essentials of Weather Forecasting", Michael Hodgson, ICS Books, 1992, ISBN 0-934802-75-0, Basic explanation of weather forecasting in the field.
  
• "Weather Merit Badge Pamphlet", Boy Scouts of America, No. 33274
  
• "Wilderness Survival Merit Badge Pamphlet", Boy Scouts of America, No. 33265
  

VIDEO TAPES

• Woodsmaster Videos