Starting With Fire

This skills program presents the basic skill of fire building. This is the second in a series of shows featuring primitive technologies experts from Primitive Ways . (The first show is number 141, First Skills .) Naturalist Dino Labiste explains and demonstrates the fundamental skill of fire building. Our ancestors depended on fire as a basic survival tool as far back as a million years ago, and yet today, among many people it's becoming a lost art. Ben Lawhon, the education director for the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics talks about minimum impact skills for making and using fires. The fifth Leave No Trace principle is Minimize Campfire Impacts . The Primitive Ways website has many articles on primitive fire skills . Another source of information on primitive skills in the Society of Primitive Technologies . Show number 146 [MP3 format; length 9:55; 2,383,583 bytes] Show number 146, high-quality stereo version [MP3 format; length 10:28; 10,057,426 bytes] Show number 146 script JOIN NOW -- Help us help more folks to appreciate our wild public lands.

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Starting With Fire is an episode from The WildeBeat by Steve Sergeant.

This episode is 9:55 long.

This episode was published on Jul 10, 2008.

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