Persuasive Essay On How To Live In The Woods

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You’re stuck in the middle of the woods not knowing where you are or where to go. What are you going to do? You don’t have any water or food or source of heat. How long will you survive? Most people have no basic knowledge of survival skills and would panic or die. Nobody knows any basic survival skills even though everyone should know for that one time that you need to survive in the wild. If your ever lost in the wild the first thing you need to find is water. If you can find a good source of water it is very advised to boil it. If you don’t have time to boil it try to find the water from a fast moving stream or river the filter it through as much cloth as you can. Otherwise if you plan on sticking around then you can tie a plastic bag around a tree branch that has lots of leaves. Then poke a small hole in the bottom of it and put a container of some sort under it. Or you can dig a pit a small pit and put a can in the center with a straw coming out of it to the top of the pit. Then surround the inside of the pit with foiledge or moss or other such things. After that you put a piece of plastic on top and pin it down with dirt or sand. The last step is you put a stone above the can so it makes it the lowest part of …show more content…

One of the easiest ways to me is steel wool and a 9v battery (9 Ways To Start a Fire Without Matches). All you have to do is touch the steel wool to the 9v and once you see flame put it in your tinder pile. Another way is flint and steel all you have to do is just strike the steel across the flint aiming the direction of the strike towards the tinder ball so it will through sparks into the center of it. A third most hard and primitive way is called the bow and drill. For bow and drill make a tool like the one in the diagram and pull the bow back and forth in a fast motion. Once you can see a small coal of it starts smoking a lot dump the coals into a tinder

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