Wilderness Survival: Using Straw Grass

Video Transcript

"Hi this is John Stewart and this is how straw grass can be beneficial to you in nature. Straw grass you can find it when it's still alive and green and then when it's dried out and dead it just turns tan and shrivels up and gets real crunchy ok. You can use this for starting fires, burns really fast ok. The green stuff works incredibly well for bedding. Say you have to build a lean too shelter or something, you can get a bunch of this, some of the dead stuff, lay it out flat. It's going to be nice and cushy to where you're not laying directly on the hard ground or a stump or something. So you can sleep comfortably at night. Ok the other key thing this is really good for as long as you have the stuff that's alive is signal fires. Ok if you can find a lot of this stuff, get a hot fire burning, you can throw a couple of handfuls of this on there and it's going to put off a real, real, thick white smoke that can be seen for miles away, so that you don't have to worry about being found. They'll see it and they can come looking for what it is ok. So that's some of the uses you can get from straw grass."