Summary: <p><img src="http://www.wildebeat.net/supplements/E141/fire.jpg" alt="[Camp fire]" width="320" height="239" border="0" align="right" hspace="8"> This skills program presents the basic skill of fire building. This is the second in a series of shows featuring primitive technologies experts from <a href="http://www.primitiveways.com/">Primitive Ways</a>. (The first show is number 141, <a href="http://www.wildebeat.net/index.cgi/2008/06/05#E141">First Skills</a>.)</p> <p>Naturalist Dino Labiste explains and demonstrates the fundamental skill of fire building. Our ancestors depended on fire as a basic survival tool as far back as a million years ago, and yet today, among many people it's becoming a lost art.</p> <p>Ben Lawhon, the education director for the <a href="http://www.lnt.org/">Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics</a> talks about minimum impact skills for making and using fires. The fifth <a href="http://lnt.org/programs/principles.php">Leave No Trace principle</a> is <a href="http://lnt.org/programs/principles_5.php">Minimize Campfire Impacts</a>.</p> <p>The Primitive Ways website has <a href="http://www.primitiveways.com/#anchor694080">many articles on primitive fire skills</a>. Another source of information on primitive skills in the <a href="http://www.primitive.org/">Society of Primitive Technologies</a>.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.wildebeat.net/audio/WildeBeat-E146.mp3">Show number 146 [MP3 format; length 9:55; 2,383,583 bytes]</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.wildebeat.net/audio/WildeBeat-E146-stereo.mp3">Show number 146, high-quality stereo version [MP3 format; length 10:28; 10,057,426 bytes]</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.wildebeat.net/scripts/E146.html">Show number 146 script</a></li> </ul> <br clear="all"> For a complete audio archive, and to find out more, visit: www.wildebeat.net
