How Do You Build Primitive Survival Shelters?
Learn to build a primitive survival shelter to maximize your disaster preparedness in an emergency. You can build primitive survival shelters from basic materials found in the forest. Additional materials such as rope may come in handy, but you never know what you’ll have on your person when disaster strikes, so learn to build a primitive survival shelter using only the materials provided by Mother Nature. Find a sturdy tree with a Y-shaped fork about three feet up the trunk. If none is available, find a comparably sized boulder or tree stump. Rest one end of a long, sturdy log in the nook of the tree’s Y-shaped fork. Secure it with rope if you have it. This will serve as your shelter’s ridgepole, or roof support. Lean smaller sticks against either side of the ridgepole. Start about two feet away from the tree to leave yourself an open entryway. Set the sticks as close together as possible to make a tight shelter. Crawl inside the structure once you have the frame complete. It should b
