If you match a good first aid kit with some basic but current CPR you’re a long way towards piece of mind on what’s supposed to be fun in the great outdoors...

You can’t get the birch bark smell from a crisp photo, or the warmth that the flames send forth. You have to go build the fire, and sit by it. Breathe it, tend it, and follow the lofted sparks until the night sky just turn’s them into stars...

Every spring and summer hundreds of young, orphaned animals are brought to wildlife rehabilitators. Often these animals are not true orphans. Here is some information on identifying, caring for and transporting orphaned mammals...