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Fire is a very important part of survival in the wilderness. It can be used for protection, the cooking of meals, and also for warmth. Certain fuels can be used to intense the purpose of your fire.

Fuels that can be used for warmth include bazel, apple, holly, and fire, which all burn quickly and brightly and give off a good amount of heat. For cooking, dense, hard woods like ash, beech, birch, oak, maple, sycamore, and hickory, all burn slowly and evenly. This gives off great heat and produces coals that can be used for slow cooking. It is also important to remember that the food may taste like the smell of the smoke which is affected by what you fuel you use in the fire.

If you are in a hurry to save the fire, emergency fuels that can be used are animal dung, moss, heather, dry lichen, and blocks of peat. Dried seaweed on the shore, animal fat, and sand that may contain some oil could also be used as emergency fuel.

There are also many woods to avoid using. This is because some resinous woods spit fire fiercely. These would include blackthorn, pine, chestnut, alder, willow, poplar, and even bamboo.

(Source: McManners, Hugh. The Complete Wilderness Training Book. 1994.)

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Desperate times call for desperate measures. When you are in a survival situation, you have to find water in any way that you can, even if it results in drinking seawater. It is possible to use seawater and even urine to develop freshwater by condensation. It employs the same concept as a solar still. Here are step-by-step instructions on how to make freshwater out of seawater:

1) Place the seawater in a bowl, with a cup in the center.

2) Drape a plastic sheet over the bowl and tie it down.

3) Place a stone in the center, forming a cone over the cup.

The idea behind this is that the air under the plastic will heat up, and as the seawater warms, it will condense into freshwater, on the underside of the sheet.

Another way is to distill the seawater. This can be done by boiling the seawater with a cloth covering the pot. This will collect the steam. Using about several cloths, use a stick to take the cloths off the pot, wait till it cools, then wring out the pure water in them.

The method I have just shown you as well as other survival techniques on this site are recommended to only be use in survival situations.

Jason Survival Techniques

In previous articles, How to Start a Fire, Part I and How to Start a Fire, Part II, I taught you the different types of wood to help gradually build a fire, as well as how to start a spark and light the wood. Tinder is the most important part of building a fire because, in most cases, it is the only type of wood that can catch the spark you create and catch fire. Here are types of tinder that you can use to start the fire:

1) Moss - Dead, dry moss is sufficient enough to start a fire. You can find moss growing in tree trunks or boggy ground.

2) Dry Grass - Dry grass will quickly catch a spark.

3) Dead Leaves – Dry, dead leaves can be found roughly anywhere. You can use them as a whole, or crumble them into small pieces for use.

4) Fungus - Shelf fungus, which can be found on trees, has a waterproof outer skin and a very soft inner-flesh. It is very dry and fluffy, which can make it excellent to use as tinder. However, you would probably need to cut off the outer-skin with a knife in order to get to the soft inside tissue.

5) Bark - The inside of bark is dry. If you carve away the wet outer-part or look where insects have burrowed into the wood will create dry sawdust, making it good to use for tinder.

6) Rotten Wood - Rotten wood can be used as tinder also, wherever you can find it.

(Source: McManners, Hugh. The Complete Wilderness Training Book. 1994.)

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In the wilderness, it is possible to make yourself a good-tasting drink. In fact, the needles from evergreen trees like pine and spruce are rich in vitamins A and C. However, you should only collect fresh green needles with no discoloration. All you would have to do is drop the needles into boiling water. Let the needles infuse for 5-10 minutes with stirring occasionally. Then, remove the needles by straining it through a cloth tied over a can. Sugar or honey would sweeten the tea also.

A good tip to know if you were ever put in the situation where you had to survive in the wilderness.

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Like I have said many times before, desperate times call for desperate measures. In a life or death situation, you must have food, water, and shelter to survive. Water is the key to survival, since your body needs water to do pretty much anything. Water can be obtained in many methods which I have and will continue to show you in upcoming articles.

Trees need water to grow and survive also. A simple way to get water from tree branches is to tie a plastic bag around a growing branch or whole plant. What happens is the water vapor that is given off will heat up inside the bag and condense as water.

The method I have shown you as well as other survival techniques on this site are recommended to only be used in survival situations.

Jason Survival Techniques