The King’s Deer: Is America no place to practice primitive survival skills?

To live is an act of consumption. How can we conserve nature, and still understand and appreciate it, and continue to pass our knowledge of primitive survival skills down to our children and grandchildren? The survival of our species may very well depend on it.

Yet practicing primitive survival skills is regulated by federal and state and frowned upon by “conservationists” falsely so called. How could anybody object to learning about nature by practicing primitive survival skills? If you’re worried about your carbon footprint, the health of our planet, hugging the trees or saving the whales, you can’t truly appreciate nature from inside your home or from inside the walls of a school. You have to get out in nature and experience it and you can’t get any closer than to nature than by practicing primitive survival skills.

By that measure, nobody appreciates nature more than the primitive survival crowd. How could they be a threat to nature? They are nature’s biggest fans.

It has do with an extremist environmental mantra that became a mandate and has been force fed to the US Forest Service, the Boy Scouts of America, schools, state forest and fish and game agencies and on down the line. The mantra is:

Leave No Trace

It sounds harmless enough, unless you realize that it is a scientific impossibility, and you try to make it the law of the land. No one can live or even pass without leaving a trace. Like all animals, human beings must consume in order to live. By existing, every Homo sapiens has an impact on the rest of the planet and the rest of the planet has an impact on us. Just like our ancestors, we have been part of what we now refer to as nature. Attempting to separate man from nature is the sandy foundation Leave No Trace is built upon.

What started as an ethic “in response to environmental damage cause by outdoor recreation”, became a movement. At first, it was common sense that people should pick up after themselves and not damage the environment. But like many commonsense adages, it falls apart when taken to its literal extreme, something the founders of the movement likely never intended.

LNT extremists believe that people should be totally separated from nature. Our forests and deserts must be roped off and people should be fed by monoculture on factory farms. You can’t go mixing human beings and nature.

They think our natural parks should be placed under glass domes and that we should be fed, clothed, fueled, and entertained using the natural resources of countries without far less environmental regulation that our own nation has. In essence, their argument is that our natural resources should be placed behind glass, and we should trash someone else’s back yard. It might work, except for the fact that we are all on the same planet and what you do in China affects the air and atmosphere and water in the USA and vice versa. We are all in this together.

The King’s Deer

I had the occasion to observe two of the grandfathers of the primitive survival, David Holladay and Dave Wescott, discuss this subject one year at PrepperCon. For decades their craft has been regulated out of existence to the point that primitive gatherings are hosted on private property because it is pretty much impossible to host them anywhere else. These are the people who practice fire my friction, flint knapping, and gather wild edibles for their day job. In addition to being educators, they are experts at living off the land, something that has become so highly regulated in the US that it is at times impossible to do without offending someone or breaking a rule here and there.

David Holladay said, “It’s like the story of Robin Hood. When Robin was arrested for killing one of the King’s deer. Pretty soon it will against the law for a guy to feed himself. You’ll be thrown in jail just for living.” He was absolutely right.

Legislators love to make laws. The problem is too little energy is assigned to getting rid of the bad and outdated laws. There are so many laws in the USA that nobody knows how many there are. Congress tried to count how many laws we have, but there are so many laws that they ran out of funding before they were able to count them all.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse, so we are held accountable for obeying laws that are so numerous that the government is incapable of even telling us how many laws there are, much less what every one of them says. It reminds of the book Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent. The premise is that the average professional commits three felonies a day and ends the day unaware that he has done so.

In Utah, harvesting rainwater that falls on your own property was heavily regulated until just a few years ago. It was illegal to collect more than a couple of barrels if they were above ground. Keep in mind, rainwater harvesting is a practice that is good for water conservation. If everybody did it, they would be more aware of their water usage and the work and expense of harvesting rainwater and they would naturally waste less water. They would also use thousands of gallons less water per year. Now, Utahans can have a tank of up to 2,500 gallons… as long as they register it with the division of water rights. Not to worry though, most are very much in favor of rainwater storage. Utah is one of the exceptions.

So, who cares if a few hippies go out in the desert and rub some sticks together, maybe collect a few rocks, drink little water, and eat a few plants? It turns out, federal and state government, the Sierra Club, and the rest of the present-day LNT whackos care very much. They don’t want them getting their hippie stink or their bare footprints all over the Sierra Club’s forests and deserts. They don’t want them eating any plants, braiding cordage, making fires, and don’t even think about building a primitive shelter.

Never mind that these activities were sacred to the people who started the LNT movement. Because today’s LNT extremists are so much more enlightened than their neandertal predecessors who enjoyed the outdoors someplace other than on their flatscreen TV. And they are more than happy to lecture you about why is wrong to have children, eat anything that wasn’t grown in some other country, or set foot off of asphalt or concrete.

LNT & the CCP

I can’t help but wonder if they aren’t useful idiots the CCP. Take rare earth metals for instance. China processes 85% of the world’s rare earth metals. If it weren’t for the LNT crowd, we would be processing our rare earth metals here in the US, where there is strict environmental regulation. Instead, we load rare earth metals mined in the US onto ships, which spew carbon and chop up dolphins all the way to China, where they are processed free of environmental regulation, then we sell our rare earth metals to Chinese companies at a discount, since they are already there, China uses them products, which are then shipped all they way back the US, once again spewing carbon, running over whales, and chopping up dolphins with giant propellers the whole way. And it’s the “environmentalists” who are causing this to happen?

Electric vehicle production may drive demand for rare earth metals, but China has another interest. The US is more vulnerable to HEMP than any other nation. A HEMP would destroy the Very Large Transformers, that step electricity up for transmission and step it down at its destination. Each VLT uses many tons of rare earth metals, is custom designed and built, and has a lead time that measures in years. China controls the lion’s share of production, processing and manufacture of VLT’s. With a single strike, they could cripple the North American grid. If they do, the US would be dependent on China to rebuild it.

Allowing China to maneuver the US into this position was colossally stupid on our part. All they needed was the cooperation of the LNT crowd, who lined up for handouts from the CCP.

Live Free or Die

In the process, the USA went from the “Land of the Free” to the “Land of the Not Quite as Free as We Used to Be.” I never felt as free as I did out hunting and camping in the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. But after 9-11, the bedwetters did something the terrorists never could have done. They passed the un-Patriot Act, built the TSA, and in that climate, LNT went from a commonsense ethic to a “Let me see your papers!” mandate. It makes me sad that our kids and grandkids will never know what it feels like to be truly free … at least not here in the “Land of the free.”

I was free to practice primitive survival skills and to feed myself off the land. But my son will be an outlaw for doing the same thing in the same place at a different time. I suppose every generation has to have its revolution and becoming a criminal so mankind doesn’t go extinct is as good a reason as any. I say, “Down with the King!”

Written by

Cache Valley Prepper is the CEO of Survival Sensei, LLC, a freelance author, writer, survival instructor, consultant and the director of the Survival Brain Trust. A descendant of pioneers, Cache was raised in the tradition of self-reliance and grew up working archaeological digs in the desert Southwest, hiking the Swiss Alps and Scottish highlands and building the Boy Scout Program in Portugal. Cache was mentored in survival by a Delta Force Lt Col and a physician in the US Nuclear Program and in business by Stephen R. Covey. You can catch up with Cache teaching EMP survival at survival expos, teaching SERE to ex-pats and vagabonds in South America or getting in some dirt time with the primitive skills crowd in a wilderness near you. His Facebook page is here. Cache Valley Prepper is a pen name used to protect his identity. You can send Cache Valley Prepper a message at editor [at] survivopedia.com

Latest comments
  • The following is an excerpt from a book I am writing.

    … The year is 2030, and it’s been five years since the “Deep Dark” governments of the world implemented their “New World Order” plan in the year Twenty-Twenty-Five. The total population had been reduced to just under one billion people and spread equally around the planet. This genocide was attempted by introducing the COVID-19 virus upon the planet five years earlier, thus creating a worldwide pandemic. This also allowed the world’s governments to control their citizenry with mandatory lockdowns.
    The virus alone didn’t have the mortality rate they had hoped for, so they immediately created “vaccines,” which were then forced upon the people. Many of those who received the “shot” were dead within months, mostly the elderly and sick to begin with. But then, as the kill rate slowed again, they developed booster shots that killed off more of the population. But still, it was taking too long, so the scientists developed the new Avian Flu variant and released it onto the world. And then came new “vaccines” and boosters. When they finally got the population down to where they wanted it, out came the cure.
    The instigators also knew, and hoped, that there would be a significant amount of people who would refuse the vaccine (anti-vaxers) and go with natural immunity and that they had prepared for such a pandemic and would be hiding out in their specially constructed and well-equipped bunkers across most of the major continents, thereby ensuring that they would have a suitable population of strong and healthy workers.
    They wanted to control every aspect of everyone’s life. No one would own anything. No private bank accounts. No private farms. No independent industry of any kind. The governments of the world would own them all. Men and women would have to work for the state and bank credits for food and shelter.
    If you refused to work, then your access to food and shelter would cease. If you wanted to survive, you would do as you were told. There would be no more cash. The elite would control all wealth and have gold and silver under their control. The people would be closely monitored to ensure they did not try to grow or cultivate their own food. Hunting, fishing, and foraging would be ruled unlawful. Anyone caught violating the laws would be killed to set an example for the rest of the drones. Follow the rules, or you will die…

    • I would be one of those underground cave dwellers in that time, should that story come true. And I would be happy for all those CHINA toys i purchased were with me, especially the lights, and Hot Logic food warmers/cookers. And other mini kitchen aids were available to me.. To hell with “Their Rules,” as I would not be a part of their society, because what you can’t see you can’t rule/regulate/or dominate..

  • You are describing to movie SOYLENT GREEN, where there too many people and they ” corporations pickup rioting people and make wafers and feed the masses and the ŵas what the people were rioting about, not enough soylent green wafers. But only the very rich get to eat real fruits and meats?
    THERE IS AN OLD SAYING: When we paved all the fields and concreted all the parks and dried all the used waters rivers lakes seas and oceans we will know that we can not eat money nor breathe POLUTION.
    THERE ARE COUNTRIES THAT WILL, PUBLICLY EXACUTE DRUG ADDICTS, A BULLET TO THE BACK OF THE ADDICTS HEAD, we can say population control. An easier way might be sterilization of drug addicts, JUNKIES. to stop drug abuse, 1 start educating 10 yrs old that addiction is inevitably when they experiment with illegal drugs. Or sterilization of addicts from propigating more addicts to be abused by the addicts that got young addicts addicted to supply older addicts.

  • While rainwater harvesting is illegal in some states, Did you know that Collecting snowflakes and Ice is not legally water harvesting? So, if you pack your snow in the winter and save it as blocks, cut your Ice into blocks, and stash them on your property, it is legally YOURS! And, when it turns to water… it is still yours because the water originated from a MINERAL.

    So, if the Rainwater that falls on your property is the government’s property to control, then any water damage is caused by the lack of the government’s control, and therefore any damage caused by that water should be subject to payment for the damage done should it not? Now it is time to have all your family, friends, and neighbors to initiate a claim for that damage, to the state, local, and federal governments. I mean if a dog went onto a neighbor’s property and killed their goat, is not the owner of that property (Dog) liable for the murder of the neighbor’s Goat?

    The best protection from the Government’s rainwater would be a Biodome over the whole of the property and that would ensure that the government’s property is truly protected from theft by the people and the people are protected from the damage of the water.

    This all may sound silly but consider this. If the water on my land is controlled by me and I did not attend to the care and maintenance of that water, and it released itself and wandered into my neighbor’s property killed his crops, and washed his barn into the ground, would I not be held responsible? It is time to hold the Federal and/or the State and Local Governments claiming to own the water and control the water rights, then start holding them all responsible for the damage to your property.

    I don’t care what the government states. If the water is on my property I will use it and claim it illegally wandered to my property and I am giving it amnesty and my protection and I will not allow for extradition! If the Kamala’s of this world get by with crazy sh-t, well I can too!

  • Well since ice and snow is mentioned on here then bet your hiking boots it will be

  • I honestly don’t know what some of your abbreviations stand for. You might try having a short paragraph explaining them.

LEAVE A COMMENT

Hacklinkbetsat
betsat
betsat
holiganbet
holiganbet
holiganbet
Jojobet giriş
Jojobet giriş
Jojobet giriş
casibom giriş
casibom giriş
casibom giriş
xbet
xbet
xbet
grandpashabet
grandpashabet
grandpashabet
tuzla evden eve nakliyat
İzmir psikoloji
Noraweb
grandpashabet
grandpashabet
casibom giriş
Casibom
jojobet
güvenilir casino siteleri
pusulabet
beylikdüzü escort
setrabet
deneme bonusu veren siteler
deneme bonusu veren siteler
deneme bonusu veren siteler
deneme bonusu siteleri
instagram followers buy
imajbet
casibom giriş
casinolevant
matadorbet giriş
deneme bonusu veren sitelerAviator oynagates of olympus democasibom girişDemo slot oynasugar rush demoSweet bonanza demoCasinoslotBahisnowdeneme bonusu veren sitelerbetovisofansifbetcasibomultrabetKalebetmarsbahismarsbahisradissonbet güncel girişbetovismarsbahisbankobetbankobet girişsahabetotobetantalya travestiMeritkingmarsbahisdeneme bonusu veren sitelermarsbahisKalebetKalebetbahiscomdeneme bonusu veren siteler 2024deneme bonusu veren siteler 2024fethiye escortfethiye escortmariobetmariobetmarsbahis
Etimesgut evden eve nakliyatEtimesgut evden eve nakliyatantika satıcamAnkara implant fiyatlarıtuzla nakliyatetimesgut evden eve nakliyatbeykoz evden eve nakliyatmersin parça eşya taşımamersin eşya paketlemeeskişehir ofis temizliğioran evden eve nakliyatseo fiyatlarımersin evden eve nakliyatmersin evden eve nakliyateskişehir emlakmersin evden eve nakliyatkeçiören evden eve nakliyatkaliteli replika saatlerEskişehir özel ingilizce dersiEtimesgut evden eve nakliyatdex trending botdextools trending botdextool trending servicedextools trending servicecmc trending botcoinmarketcap trending botdextools trendingtrending bothow to trending on dextoolsdextools volume botankara evden eve nakliyatetimesgut evden eve nakliyattuzla evden eve nakliyattrending on dextoolsfront runner botfront run botfront running botmev botdex sniper botpancakeswap botpancakeswap sniper botsolana sniper botsol sniper botsolana botMetafizikikinci el kitap alanlareskişehir uydu tamirtuzla evden eve nakliyatistanbul moloz taşımamersin asansörlü nakliyateskişehir emlakankara evden eve nakliyatankara şehirler arası nakliyatyeni şehir evden eve nakliyatyeni şehir evden eve nakliyatakdeniz evden eve nakliyatakdeniz evden eve nakliyatkeçiören evden eve nakliyatkeçiören evden eve nakliyateskişehir uydu servisieskişehir uydu servisituzluca evden eve nakliyatmersin evden eve nakliyatmersin nakliyatmersin nakliyattuzla asansörlü nakliyattuzla asansörlü nakliyatmersin asansörlü nakliyatmersin asansörlü nakliyatmersin evden eve nakliyatmersin evden eve nakliyattarsus evden eve nakliyattarsus evden eve nakliyatdextools trendingmarsbahismarsbahis girişcasibom girişmersin evden eve nakliyatmersin evden eve nakliyatmersin eşya paketlememersin eşya paketlemesancaktepe evden eve nakliyatsancaktepe evden eve nakliyateskişehir güvenlik kamerasıeskişehir güvenlik kamerasıığdır evden eve nakliyatığdır evden eve nakliyatığdır şehir içi nakliyatığdır şehir içi nakliyatmalatya evden eve nakliyatmalatya evden eve nakliyatmersin evden eve nakliyatborsa robotu satın almarsbahis girişkitap alanlarkitap alanlarkitap alanlarkitap alanlarkitap alanlarAntika mobilya alanlarAntika mobilya alanlarmarsbahismarsbahismarsbahis girişcasibom girişcasibom girişmersin eşya paketlememersin eşya paketlemecasibom giriş twitterantika alım satımmarsbahis girişmarsbahismarsbahis girişvozol puffjuul sigaracasibom girişmarsbahismarsbahispursaklar evden eve nakliyateskişehir televizyon servisieskişehir televizyon servisiığdır sigortalı nakliyatığdır sigortalı nakliyatmalatya evden eve nakliyatmalatya evden eve nakliyatmalatya evden eve nakliyatMedyumbmw repair edmontongrandpashabetmersin ofis taşımacılığıeskişehir uydu servisieskişehir uydu servisitereamalatya sigortalı nakliyatmalatya sigortalı nakliyatistanbul moloz taşımaistanbul moloz taşımamersin evden eve nakliyatmersin ofis taşımacılığımersin ofis taşımacılığımersin ofis taşımamersin ofis taşımaankara asansörlü nakliyatankara asansörlü nakliyatgüvenilir bahis sitelerimarsbahismarsbahismarsbahis girişAntika alanlarAntika alanlarAntika alanlarAntika alanlarAntika Eşya alanlarAntika Eşya alanlarantikabatman evden eve nakliyatbatman evden eve nakliyatİzmir Medyumeskişehir televizyon tamirieskişehir televizyon tamirieskişehir ev temizliğieskişehir ev temizliğimarsbahis giriş