This book is straightforward, practical guide for taking care of yourself (and others) in a survival situation with crucial, basic survival skills required for an emergency situation during all four seasons in all wilderness areas of Canada.
Objectives:
• Understanding the importance of being prepared
• Learning basic short-term bush craft skills
• Types and use of tools, equipment, strategies and techniques required for successful survival (and rescue) in the wilderness.
Readers will learn essential wilderness survival skills for each region of Canada and learn about environmental hazards such as; weather, predators and regional terrain, emergency first aid, search and rescue. Filled with useful illustrations and diagrams, the Canadian Survival Guide will provide instruction on such outdoor survival techniques as shelter construction/location, fire making, water requirements and acquisition, signalling, hunting and trapping techniques, animal signs and identification, fishing, gathering, foraging for berries and wild edibles and plant identification. Whether you find yourself stranded in the dense rain forests of British Columbia or on the tundra of Northern Canada, the Canadian Survival Guide will get you out in one piece.