Cold Weather Injuries

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Working in a cold weather environment presents many new challenges as well as more dangers. Understanding and recognizing these dangers may save your life or the life of a family member or comrade.

Here are some Injuries and Conditions associated with working/living in a cold weather environment.

Types of Injuries

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Definition:

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Preserving game meats.

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

With hunting season right around the corner. I ran across this in my files and I thought I would post it as a good source of preparing and preserving game meats.

Hope this helps!

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The possibility of food shoratges.

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

 Many of you have probably noticed the recent remodeling/changes made in major retail stores by increasing and rearranging floor space to maximize sale floor space. However, one thing we are not seeing is the reduced storage space in back. Granted, at least here locally, several chains have built new distribution centers and they have been operating for a few years now.

I have read and heard the phrase “we are 6 meals away from starving”, this I think is two-fold. One, most families have maybe 2-5 day’s worth of groceries on hand and secondly as I stated, many stores rely on distribution centers for quick stock replenishment.

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Long Term Food Storage

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

In addition to canned goods we should put back some dry goods for long term storage. Rather than try and reinvent the wheel, I have used the methods and information from these videos and found it very helpful.

Here are some helpful links I have found on youtube.

And some results of storage:

Hope this helps!

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Survival Basics

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

We all watch the ‘survival shows’ that are on the TV these days and many people may have said to themselves “there’s no way I could do that” or some may have even said…”sure that’s easy”. Here’s a breakdown for the ‘naysayers’ out there and bare bare bones basic skills needed to stay alive and been found:

 Learn to make a fire.

Always have at least THREE methods of starting a fire with you, one can be used immediately like waterproof matches or a butane lighter. You can add flint and steel and I would suggest picking up a Magnesium Fire Starter/Bar as well, you shave the magnesium off so you will always have some ‘dry’ fire starting material. These can be picked up at a local camping or discount store.

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