The document provides basic rules and concepts for survival in the wilderness. It outlines five key steps: 1) stay calm and assess your situation and supplies; 2) check your survival kit; 3) find an open area to wait for searchers and build shelter; 4) create a plan prioritizing warmth, water, food and first aid; 5) stay in one place and wait to be found. It also discusses the importance of the will to survive and addressing the four basic needs of warmth, water, sleep and food. Proper wilderness survival skills including fire-making, shelter-building, water purification, finding food, signaling, navigation and first aid are also emphasized.

1. SURVIVAL IN THE
WILD

2. BASIC RULES OF
SURVIVAL

3. 1. Relax. Don’t Panic!
• If you are lost and alone in the wilderness sit
down and stay put until the fear, anger, and or
frustration has gone from your system.
• Collect your thoughts. What do you have that
can help you in this situation? Your mind is your
greatest survival tool!

4. 2. Check your survival kit
• Be sure that you know how to use
everything that is in your survival kit.
• Take an inventory of your mind, remember
what you always thought you would do if
you got lost.

5. 3. Look around, where to stay?
• Is there an open area so the searchers
can see you?
• Where will you build a shelter?

8. 4. Create your plan of action.
• Be sure that you do not overcomplicate things.
• If you are lost in the early spring or late fall, or are at a
higher altitude, keeping warm should be your number
one priority.
• If injured, first aid has top priority no matter what climate
you are in.
• Figure out what order you will do things in.
• Remain positive, this is a real survivor challenge but you
do have the ability to survive.

9. 5. Stay in one place, and wait it out.
• Do not wander around. If you told someone
where you were going then people are probably
looking for you.
• The primary reason you should not move once
you realize you are lost is historically people
who are lost and alone in the wilderness
continue to move, move further away from
where they should be.

10. BASIC CONCEPTS OF
SURVIVAL

11. WILL TO SURVIVE
• When faced with a survival situation an
individual encounters many stress related
behaviors that ultimately impact the mind
and affect decision making.
• Without a desire to survive, acquired
survival skills serve little purpose.

12. Basic Needs
• In a wilderness survival situation you will
be confronted with many problems that
you need to overcome.
• There are four basic needs for survival
1. Warmth
2. Water
3. Sleep
4. Food

13. BASIC STEPS
• Survival depends a great deal on your ability to
withstand stress in emergency situations and to
take the right action.
• How do you build the confidence to remain calm
and make the right decisions in an emergency
situation?
• You need the knowledge and practical skills that
can help you to manage a difficult situation to
enable you to remain calm and objective.

14. 8 Basic Wilderness Survival
Skills
1. Make a fire with or without matches.
2. Make a shelter to protect you from different
weather conditions.
3. Find and purify water. {Using "Solar Water Still"
or by "Boiling"}
4. Find food. {If you are a vegetarian don't be a
vegetarian}
5. Use different ways of signaling to attract
attention.
6. Navigate with and without a map and compass.
7. Basic Wilderness first-aid.
8. Basic weather prediction.

16. RULE OF 3’s
• Know the Rules Of 3's.
• You can survive 3 minutes with out air.
• You can survive 3 hours without proper
shelter.
• You can survive 3 days with out water.
• You can survive 3 weeks with out food.