Category: General Blog
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Rewilding Tech Inventory: Natural Glues
(Left) Dehydrated hide chips in a clay pot: take pieces of deer hide and simmer them in water for like 24-36 hours and they will dissolve. The water boils off and you are left with this glue. Pour it on a flat pan and let it dry out. It breaks up into these pieces. To…
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Taking Rewilding Up a Notch
I’ve been learning and teaching primitive skills, animal tracking, nature awareness, community building, and all aspects of rewilding for a long time now. I have yet to see a cohesion of these skills in application. That is all going to change this summer. I have signed up for Lynx Vilden’s summer immersion program. Lynx is…
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Rewilding Tech Inventory: Bone Tools
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Rewild Camp Fundraiser
Hey Folks, I’m doing a fundraiser for my non-profit Rewild Portland. Check out the video and please donate! DONATE HERE
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Scraping Hides With Ants?
I have had little time to do much these days with the amount of time that I work. Three raccoon hides have sat in my garage for months and months waiting for the membrane-scraping step in the hide tanning process. I noticed them in the garage the other day and saw something amazing. It appears…
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Urban Scout Mentioned in Meat Paper #15
A while back my friend Maggie asked me to teach her a bit about the ins and outs of eatin’ roadkill. We went on a fun adventure and found a squirrel which she then skinned, gutted, cooked and ate. She wrote a very nice and funny article. Go out and pick up issue #15 of…
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REWILD OR DIE BOOK TOUR!
Hey there friends, Thanks so much for all your help with the tour and making it possible. I may update this page if things shift around a bit, so please be patient and check back for changes. Here are the following stops that I plan to make: Bellingham, WA Monday June 20, 2011 from 7:30pm…
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“Boring conversations with interesting people”
That’s how my friend Drew described his project to me, of interviewing people on his website. I loved the premise and so we had a conversation. Check out his interview with me here: http://www.mohdi.com/2011/03/08/urban-scout-conversations/
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What-ever-you-want Vs. Rewilding
Pledge $20 or more to my book tour If you pledge this amount, you enter a raffle of which 3 winners will give me a topic to write a 400 word essay on “Whatever-you-want vs. Rewilding.” This will be published on my blog www.urbanscout.org AND will be printed in Rewild or Die volume II due…
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Fundraising for a Book Tour
Hey there friends. In order for me to go on a west coast book tour I’ve got to raise $5,000. I’m using the Kickstarter online fundraising platform for artists. The way Kickstarter works is simple: offer rewards as incentives for people to pledge money to your project. If you don’t raise all of the money…
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Debate vs. Rewilding
I have opinions, sure. And yeah, I talk about them. A lot. But mostly with close friends and rarely do I debate them. I’ve never liked debate. The emotional stakes in debate rest way too high for my enjoyment. Debate does not imply a conversation where two sides try to find a middle ground, or…
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January Friction Fire Class