Survival Mindset: Proper Threat Response

Kevin EstelaJune 7, 2018

These commands were barked at me during the Warrior 1.0 pistol course with the Sayoc Tactical Group. After a course of fire, we students were told to assess our...

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Plant Pharmacy: Plants for Food and Medicine

Kevin EstelaMay 28, 2018

Human beings learn in different ways. Some people learn by seeing or hearing; some learn by doing, while others learn by teaching —and these are just some broad...

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The Survivor’s Guide to Hydration

Kevin EstelaApril 12, 2018

The water cycle is the continuous flow of water from and through the oceans, atmosphere and land. When we learn about the water cycle in school, we tend to thin...

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Foraging Gear: The Tools You Need To Collect, Process and Carry Natural Foods

Kevin EstelaMarch 22, 2018

Plant knowledge is true survival knowledge. My good friend, wild plant expert and former military/civilian survival instructor, Marty Simon of the Wilderness Le...

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When the Levee Breaks: Surviving the Rising Tide of a Deadly Flood

Kevin EstelaSeptember 1, 2017

Unnoticed in the middle of the night, water crested the banks of the river south of town and quickly inundated the storm drain system, spilling into the streets...

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Scorched Earth: Surviving Nature’s Wildfires

Kevin EstelaJune 2, 2017

Fanned by powerful winds, the blazing inferno rages out of control. Hundreds of acres in the once-pristine forest have been charred, and there is no end in sigh...

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Bites & Stings

Kevin EstelaApril 5, 2017

Jungles are literally and figuratively crawling with nasties from canopy to floor. Vegetation foreign to travelers hide three inch long thorns, crawling leeches...

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FOUND ALIVE: Preparing for Lost-Child Situations

Kevin EstelaMarch 2, 2017

“Where’s my child?” This scenario is every parent’s worst nightmare. A parent’s protective instincts are not comforted by the unknown. For a small percentage o...

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Dying of the Light: Long-Term Lighting for Atypical Outages

Kevin EstelaJanuary 11, 2017

The lights go out. You’re in darkness. It could have been a car crash that took out the neighborhood’s transformer or a brownout from too much stress on the pow...

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How to be a Modern Minuteman

Kevin EstelaDecember 14, 2016

THE MINUTEMEN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION WERE ESSENTIALLY A RAPID RESPONSE FORCE AND COULD BE READY AT A MOMENT’S NOTICE, HENCE THEIR TIME-SENSITIVE NAME. A...

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