If you get lost in the woods, a few survival skills could mean the difference between life and death. WSJ's Jeff Bush takes on the wilderness and learns how to start a fire without matches and build a ...

SELF-SUFFICIENT: Annie Egelkraut grew up with an Eagle Scout for a father. But she learned even more outdoors skills as an adult, thanks to Landmark Learning in Cullowhee. She’s taken wilderness ...

In January 2011, Zack Slavkin traveled to a secluded property in northern Vermont, deposited everything he had into a locked closet and rode a snowmobile deep into the snowy wilderness. For most of ...

BREVARD – The age-old traditions of axe-slinging and tree felling by cross-cut saw are not only alive and well, they are skills in high-demand. Along with sustainable trail building and land ...

MISSOULA, Montana—Fat spring snowflakes are falling outside, but the 14 cowboys and cowgirls crowded inside Smoke Elser's barn turned classroom are already thinking about summer. "I've been coming in ...