Wilderness Survival: Using Tree Bark

Video Transcript

"Hi this is John Stewart and this is how you would find tree bark in nature and can be real helpful in several different things. Ok you can find tree bark on just about everywhere in nature. Just find a tree. There's many different kinds. Pine bark is going to flake off in some crispy chips like this, burns really fast, real easy to ignite and stuff like that. You can use it a lot for using it as a base for building your fire. Scraping magnesium on it, putting your cotton ball or your fluff from the inside of your sock, you set it on there and scrape your magnesium on it and then ignite it, to where it's not getting dirty or moisture from the ground. Ok you can use these, you can scrape stuff with them you know say you find something you can eat, you can scrape with it, eat it right up with it. Ok so that's something that bark is really good for. The other thing is you can just burn it, you can burn bark a lot, stuff like that and that's how you can use bark in nature to survive."