Category: Old Ways
The life and times of Smokey the Bear
The Need for a Mascot After the Big Blowup in 1910, a devastating wildfire that burned nearly three million acres of land, the United States…
Yukon Quest – The toughest race in the world
“It is truly a sport where passion and the love of the outdoors and dogs all come together, as soon as I got into it,…
Wooden surfboards – Hand crafted by Grain Surfboards of Maine (video)
Surfers tend to rhapsodize about how they are one with the ocean when they’re in the water. But, between the surfer and the wave he’s…
Gifford Pinchot – the first American forester
Pinchot’s Early Years Born into a wealthy lumbering family in 1865, Pinchot grew up close to the forest environment in his home state of Connecticut.…
Explore America’s historic Wild West
The Wild West is full of stories about tribal and territorial warfare, missing treasures, and cowboys, they are getting passed from generation to generation and…
Mont Saint Michel – Visit the ultimate medieval island town
Mont Saint-Michel is an island a 0,6 miles away from the northwestern coast of France. It covers 247 acres and has a population around 50.…
The man who single-handedly planted a 1,360 acres of forest (video)
Located in the Northeast part of India, in the Brahmaputra River, rests Majuli Island. The island is a huge sandbar, and it is home to…
See how a dugout canoe is made by a master craftsman (watch)
Whether you live or plan to live near water, you need to have some kind of a boat. Living near water means that you should…
Native American survival skills that we can still use today
It seems that the art of survival has got lost through these modern ages of technology and comfortable living that we know today. Here at…
How To Survive Getting Stranded In The Jungle
Of all the different kinds of environments in the world, perhaps none is more intimidating to survive in than the jungle or rainforest. Not only…