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Wilderness Survival

The deeper you go into the wild, the more dangerous it gets. These wilderness survival skills will help you get out alive.

Latest Wilderness Survival Stories

Jim Baird’s Arctic Adventure: Cliffs in the Dark at 40 Below

By Jim Baird

/ Apr 19, 2011

Jim Baird’s Arctic Adventure: Miserable Night in a Cold War Base

By Jim Baird

/ Apr 13, 2011

Jim Baird’s Arctic Adventure: Crossing the Arctic Circle

By Jim Baird

/ Apr 11, 2011

Arctic Adventure Diary: The Comforts of Home on Great Bear

By Jim Baird

/ Apr 5, 2011

Jim Baird’s Arctic Adventure Diary: Ulukhaktok or Bust!

By Jim Baird

/ Mar 26, 2011

Video: How to Build a Quinzhee Shelter (a.k.a. Snow Cave)

By Jim Baird

/ Mar 23, 2011

Primitive Survival Skills: Part 1, Shelters

By Keith McCafferty

/ Jan 20, 2006

Introducing Jim Baird, the F&S Adventurer

By Jim Baird

/ Mar 3, 2011

How to Start a Fire in the Woods With Natural or Synthetic Tinder

By Keith McCafferty

/ Jul 20, 2019

Four Ways to Sharpen Your Knife, Axe, and Splitting Maul

By Tom Keer

/ Dec 1, 2005

How To Use a Compass To Never Get Lost in the Woods

By Keith McCafferty

/ Dec 1, 2005

Urgent Messaging

By Keith McCafferty

/ Oct 8, 2005

Gerber’s Bear Grylls Ultimate Knife: Starting a Fire In the Snow

By Chad Love

/ Feb 11, 2011

Thunderstruck

By Keith McCafferty

/ Aug 10, 2005

Where Hunters and Fishermen Should Hide from Lightning (And How to Save Your Buddy if He Gets Struck)

By Keith McCafferty

/ Aug 1, 2005

The Laws of Survival

By Keith McCafferty

/ Mar 18, 2005

Winter Survival Quiz by Field & Stream’s Keith McCafferty

By Keith McCafferty

/ Mar 1, 2005

How to Build a Survival Fire in Bad Weather

By Keith McCafferty

/ Jan 16, 2011

Learn Two Snow Shelters That Could Save Your Life

By Keith McCafferty

/ Feb 1, 2005

Stop the Bleeding!

By Jim Thornton

/ Sep 6, 2004

How to Light a Wet Wood Fire in an Emergency Survival Situation

/ Sep 1, 2004

The People Who Save Your Life

By Bill Donahue

/ Jul 3, 2004

Vote for our next cover!

By Field & Stream Online Editors

/ Apr 12, 2004

How to Make Primitive Survival Weapons in the Bush

By Keith McCafferty

/ Apr 24, 2020

How To Survive Being Trapped on a Cliff

By Keith McCafferty

/ Feb 1, 2004

How To Survive A Cold Night in the Forest

By Keith McCafferty

/ Feb 1, 2004

The Face of Danger

By Keith McCafferty

/ Dec 2, 2003

The Face of Danger

By Keith McCafferty

/ Dec 1, 2003

How to Build the Perfect Survival Fire

By Keith McCafferty

/ Jun 24, 2010

June 2003

By Field & Stream Online Editors

/ Oct 6, 2003

8 Survival Myths That Could Get You Killed

By Keith McCafferty

/ Jun 22, 2020

The Ultimate Survival Guide to Finding and Purifying Water

By Keith McCafferty

/ Jun 19, 2020

The Complete Outdoorsman

By Keith McCafferty, T. Edward Nickens, Dave Hurteau, and Bill Heavey

/ Jun 4, 2003

You Pick our June Cover!

By Field & Stream Online Editors

/ Apr 7, 2003

Wild Fires

By T. Edward Nickens

/ Jan 9, 2017

The Final Frontiersman (Continued)

By James Campbell

/ Jun 8, 2002

Staying Found

By Keith McCafferty

/ Mar 24, 2002

How to Build Warm Survival Shelters

By Jim Baird

/ Sep 7, 2020

The Complete Outdoorsman

By Field & Stream Online Editors

/ Jun 2, 2001

Review: New Bear Grylls Survival Knife & Parang Machete from Gerber

By David Maccar

/ Oct 29, 2010

Chad Love: Why Quicksand is No Longer Cool

By Chad Love

/ Aug 25, 2010

How to Survive a Snowstorm from Inside Your Truck

By Keith McCafferty

/ Nov 19, 2020

Winter Survival Quiz

By Lionel Atwill

/ Jan 1, 2000

How Accurate Are Survival TV Shows?

By Keith McCafferty

/ Sep 25, 2010

The Figure-Eight Bend

By Keith McCafferty

/ Jan 1, 2000

4 Ways to Start an Emergency Fire

By The Editors

/ Apr 13, 2020

How to Tie a Knot: 10 Basic Ties Every Sportsmen Should Know

By Craig Caudill

/ Jan 29, 2021

Field & Stream’s Five Laws of Winter Survival

By Keith McCafferty

/ Mar 1, 2005

Arctic Adventure Gear: The Equipment That Got Jim Baird Across The Frozen North

By Jim Baird

/ Jul 13, 2011

To Drink or Not to Drink?

By Keith McCafferty

/ Jan 18, 2019

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