Wilderness Medicine

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a. Noise producing path wards. Noise producing pathguards serve as an alarm for your shelter area. When triggered, it should produce some type of loud noise. Although construction can vary, depending on materials available, one example is as follows: (1) Secure a young sapling to a universal trigger. (2) At the end of the sapling, tie several pieces of metal to the sapling. Use what ever is available for metal. (3) Camouflage the metal on the ground. (4) When triggered, the sapling should swing back and forth, causing the metal rattle. b. Casualty producing path wards. Casualty producing path guards, when triggered, should cause death or injury to the enemy or predatory animal. Tips should be poisoned as discussed in Survival Plant Uses class. Triggers for this type of path guard should be the universal triggers. (1) Log Jerk

(2) Fish Hook Nightmare

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