ADVANCED MERIT: WILDERNESS SURVIVAL
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1. Demonstrate your ability to build a fire without matches.
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2. Cook a meal of at least three different items without using cooking utensils.
a. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
b. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
c. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
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3. Build an overnight shelter and a ground bed, using native materials, and use
them for 1 night.
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4. Demonstrate your ability to construct 2 of the following from native materials:
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a. A small animal snare. _______________________________________ ___/___/___
b. A fishhook. _______________________________________ ___/___/___
c. A frog or fish spear. _______________________________________ ___/___/___
5. Submit a list of 10 edible wild greens, and explain how they should be prepared
for eating.
a. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
b. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
c. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
d. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
e. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
f. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
g. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
h. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
i. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
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6. Submit a list of 5 edible roots, and explain how they should be prepared for
eating.
a. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
b. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
c. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
d. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
e. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
7. Submit a list of 10 types of small animals that may be used for emergency food.
a. __________________________________ b. __________________________________
c. __________________________________ d. __________________________________
e. __________________________________ f. __________________________________
g. __________________________________ h. __________________________________
i. __________________________________ j. __________________________________
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8. With a friend or a group go on a survival camping trip of at least 1 day and
night. You should build your shelter and bed from native materials, eat only
food you have found or caught in the field, and cook your food without the aid
of utensils.
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9. Place yourself in the following three imaginary situations. Imagine you have
only a pocket knife, and 3 days will pass before you are rescued. Make a list
of things you should do in order to survive. This list must be realistic and
based on survival knowledge and techniques.
a. Being lost in a wooded, mountainous, wilderness area.
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b. Being the only survivor of a plane crash in a cold, snow covered area.
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c. Being stranded in a jeep in a hot, dry desert.
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10. Know how to give the proper distress signals using fire, smoke, a flashlight,
a mirror, a gun, etc.
a. Fire. ____________________________________________________________________
b. Smoke. ___________________________________________________________________
c. Flashlight. ______________________________________________________________
d. Mirror. __________________________________________________________________
e. Gun. _____________________________________________________________________
f. _________________ ________________________________________________________
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11. Explain three ways you can find directions on a cloudy day without using a
compass.
a. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
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b. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
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c. ____________________ _____________________________________________________
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