Topic: "Preppers" states around us

[Nomad]

 Been reading different posts from states in the northwest, as well as the
western states New Mexico, AZ, Colorado and Nevada....
 Some great ideas on a wide selections of topics, cooking, storage of foods,
fishing with a primitive set up bird bone hook grubs from stream, traps in
small ponds herd in fish......
 Good reading.....

[NGO]

One thing I try to point out to people....right where you are standing...someone at sometime in the past found a way to not only survive but to live, raise a family and exist successfully. No maybe in the very spot your standing but in the countryside all around you in every corner of this country Injins found a way to live.

If you look at some of the books that describe the varoius tribes you will find very different homes and weapons and methods of existing.

Idaho is blessed with plenty of water, and naturally occuring food both meat and green growing kind.

Check in with the forest rangers stations they have posters, books and examples of natural occuring food to be found in these mountians around us. And in my estimation having lived in a varity of states and enviroments I would say we have as good a chance of surviving as anywhere in this country.

[Nomad]

 Lots of good information to be had and some neat bug out ideas.......

[bigjoey]

Here is a quick list from the national park service of edible plants:
Shortstyle Onion - Allium brevistylum
Fireweed - Epilobium angustifolium
Wild Ginger - Asarum caudatum
Meadow Salsify - Tragopogon pratensis
Rose - Rosa woodsii
Yellow Pond Lily - Nuphar polysepalum
Cattail - Typha latifolia
Yarrow - Achillea millefolium
Evert's or Elk Thistle - Cirsium scariosum
Serviceberry - Amelanchier alnifolia
Wild Strawberry - Fragaria vesca
Field Mint - Mentha arvensis
Oregon Grape - Berberis repens


Here is a quick list of poisonous plants:
Ferns And Their Allies
Horsetails and Scouring Rushes - Equisetum spp.
Bracken Fern - Pteridium aquilinum
 
Flowering Plants
Monkshood - Aconitum columbiana
Baneberry - Actea rubra
Dogbane - Apocynum androsaemifolium
Milkweed - Asclepias speciosa
Locoweeds and Milkvetches - Astragalus spp.
Water Hemlock - Cicuta douglasii
Poison Hemlock - Conium maculatum
Fitweed - Corydalis caseana
Hound's Tongue - Cynoglossum officinale
Larkspurs - Delphinium spp.
Steer's Head - Dicentra uniflora
Spurge - Euphorbia spp.
Klamath Weed or St. Johnswort - Hypericum perforatum
Mountain Laurel - Kalmia polifolia
Lupines - Lupinus spp.
Cherries - Prunus spp.
Buttercups - Ranunculus spp.
Poison Ivy - Rhus radicans
Elderberry - Sambucus cerulea
Tansy Ragwort - Senecio jacobaea
Nightshade - Solanum dulcamara
Tansy - Tanacetum vulgare
Stinging Nettle - Urtica dioica
Corn Lily - Veratrum californicum
Cocklebur - Xanthium strumarium
Death Camas - Zygadenus
The poisonous ones could come in handy too.

[BadtzMaru]

Nomad - do you have some links for the sites you are looking at?  I'm not real sure what to even google for to get anything useful.

[Nomad]

 Just type in "Utah preppers" on goggle you are in business........

[BadtzMaru]

"in business" indeed.  Going to take some time to digest all of that.  Thanks.