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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.
A New Day is Dawning
I am back. For the numerous people around town who have asked where my “outdoors column” has been, I have an answer. The short answer is I have been in the outdoors. No surprise there, right? Since I last chatted with you in the pages of The Winchester Sun there have been two important things happen to me as they relate to the great outdoors and the environment. The first, is that I started the certification process to become a Master Naturalist through the University of Kentucky. The second is that in our fine community some eager and active people and organizations have started an environmental education coalition. Yes, a new day is dawning, and I want to tell you a bit about these two situations.....
Scientific Proof You Need To Be Outside
This is a repository of links to articles that share proof that being outside is good for you mind, body and spirit. Join us for a class so we can help you be safe and enjoy, become enriched, and entertained by being outside.
Lost and Found: Trout fishing on a cliff
Have you ever climbed a cliff when you went trout fishing? These guys did. Join us on another Nature Reliance Media podcast episode of Lost and Found, where we break down an outdoor adventure gone awry.
Lost and Found: Burning socks to stay warm.
Join us on another Nature Reliance Media podcast episode of Lost and Found, where we break down an outdoor adventure gone awry. Imagine if you have […]
Visual Mantracking
*Note from author – Due to space availability we abbreviated this piece in a recent newsletter. I expanded upon it here to offer more and varied […]
Lost and Found – I followed a stream and got lost!
Join us on our first Nature Reliance Media podcast episode of Lost and Found, where we break down an outdoor adventure gone awry. We look at […]
The BEST Survival Training
Mindset, skills, tactics, and gear are puzzle pieces that make up any solid surival instructional curriculum. Heck, not just survival, any sort of training progam. […]
Lessons Learned from the Carrico Sisters Situation
This past Sunday there was an incredible sigh of relief across the nation as the two young Carrico sisters were found relatively safe and healthy after […]
Don’t Die Out There: How to Find Your Way AND Get Found
Time spent in the wilderness is of great value. I am sure that comes as no surprise to anyone who follows our work at Nature Reliance […]
The BEST handcrafted survival and bushcraft knives
Someone asked me the other day, how many knives did I think a person should have. My answer is pretty simple, “one more.” I am very […]
Do you want to die? Get ready to fight and survive
I have had the good fortune of working with some of the finest people this planet has to offer. Dr. Brian Jones is one of those […]
Fast and Slow Thinking Survival
It is a sad state of affairs that most those in the survival community seem to be focused entirely on skills and gear and overlook the […]
What do you see?
NOTE: This is one in a weekly column series, originally written for The Winchester Sun. They are often heavily edited for space. Therefore we will offer […]
Fall Family Fun
NOTE: This is one in a weekly column series, originally written for The Winchester Sun. These are often heavily edited for space in the paper. Therefore, […]
Farewell to the Red River Gorge
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may […]
Life Lessons from Squirrel Hunting
NOTE: This is one in a weekly column series, originally written for The Winchester Sun. They are often heavily edited for space. Therefore we will offer […]
8 Questions, 5 Tags
I am often asked to do these sorts of things and I usually ignore them because although I really enjoy teaching and assisting others, I dont […]
Five tips for tick prevention and avoidance
I did a a blog piece back in 2015 when I did some blogging for Dan’s Depot entitled “5 Tips to Avoid Ticks“. That piece is […]