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Our blogs are written by NRS instructors and guests to offer you the reader insight into engaging in the great outdoors. Topics range from homesteading to huntervationism (our word) and everything in between. Whether you want to know the best app, or the best pack, we will do all we can to offer you our decades of experience to inform you.
Terrible Land Nav Advice
One of the funnest (note this is a sarcastic statement) parts of writing a book is going through the editing process with an editor. When we were putting Essential Wilderness Navigation my editor......
Observe a Flycatcher's Journey
Introduction: There are many small woodland areas near small and large cities that allow us to get away from our homes and enjoy nature. Kinclaven Bluebell Wood in springtime is a great place to explore among mature trees and flowers and hopefully get a glimpse of animals and butterflies that frequent the area.
Winter Car Survival Kit
Craig jumped on video and gave some vitally important and insight details about what he carries in his vehicle survival supplies. It includes items that......
Stump Removal
As some of you know, I am clearing some woodland in order to grow a garden and build a greenhouse. The garden will be raised beds due to our soil and slope of the ground. You can hear more details by listening to Podcast #24 where Craig and I.....
Summer time is Paddling Time!
I will never forget getting into a canoe for the first time. I guess my dad and his brother decided to do some fishing around Leatherwood Boat Ramp on Cave Run Lake. I do not remember exactly why but they allowed my cousin and I to paddle around in the Grumman Canoe by ourselves. They told us not to splash one another when we got in. We followed that directive for about 3.5 seconds.
Environmental Stewardship
The Greeks have a word, sympathea, that translates as mutual interdependence of all things past, present and future. It is an interesting concept for sure and I like the idea of it. In today’s world, particularly here in our small town of Winchester, we do not seem to agree with the Greeks, do we?
DIY Wheelbarrow Handles
"Value-added living" is a common phrase one of my mentors used to say to me on a regular basis. His teaching point was for us to find ways to develop new skills or enhance old ones in daily life. One way that....
Wild Turkey Restoration Success
As I write this for you, turkey season is upon us. As you are reading this, I hope to be in the woods somewhere, either hunting turkeys, morel mushrooms, or both. The fact that wild turkeys are abundant enough to pursue is a fantastic feat and cooperation between hunters, conservation groups, and dedicated biologists from the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife (KDFWR).