Micpet,
Welcome to the forums! So sorry to hear about your lands. It makes me feel horrible!
Why/how did you come to rewild in your life?
Welcome, micpet, your situation is similar to (but more extreme than) my parentsā in northern MN. There has been a drought in the upper Midwest for some years now. The lake was at an all-time low water level this summer. Itās definitely getting warmer ā¦ my dad keeps an ice fishing log, and for the past five years he has had to start the log later than normal as itās taking longer for the lake to freeze.
And to all of you who bid me a warm and cordial welcome a few days back, thanks!! I appreciate your thoughtfulness.
Well, Hi There! My name is Kayla and I live here in Jackson Hole, Wy.
Now I just joined today but have been lurking here at times since the last
Rabbitstick in Sept. in Idaho when I heard about this place. This looks like
a Great Place!
Now as for myself, usually during the winters am here in town where I work
Part Time then from Spring to Fall, am out wandering in the deserts and the
mountains here in the Rocky Mountain West. My favorite is of course
wandering and living in the Headwaters of the Yellowstone, here in NW
Wyoming in the Absarokas - in the land where the Grizzly still roams and the
Wolf still howls. Also the Canyon Country in Southern Utah like the
Escalante is pretty darn good also. Just Love Good Wild Country where
one could wander and live for days in the really āReal Wilderness Worldā.
Life is Great! Grizzlies, Wolves, and Eagles are pretty darn good also!
Am so happy to be here and that have found you folks.
Mitakuya Oyasin! Creator Bless!
And by the way forgot to say, am now 50 and am a Double Sagitarius if
that means anything to anyone. Was born in Colorado before I-70, before
Vail, and when Colorado was a different state. Guess these Rocky
Mountains are in my blood. Creator Bless!
welcome, kayla!
Hi folks. My nameās Mark. Iām 26, and just moved to Brooklyn from MN. Raised in rural WI, Iāve spent my life bouncing between wilderness and urban living situations. Itās been five years since I last held a ājobā. I spent a few years in the rainbow family circuit, and a few more in Minneapolis involved in creating an urban barter networkā¦ Iāve watched civilization eat pretty much everything I depended on, and am now stepping back to reassess my strategy.
Welcome, Mark.
Where in Brooklyn do you stay? I remember eating some really good raspberries of the purple flowering variety in Prospect Park. Iām sure itās way too late in the year for them now, but if youāre still in Brooklyn next summer, look for them around the lake.
I also use Steve Brillās foraging tour calendar as a way to keep track of whatās in season in the area ā even if you never go on any of his tours.
Hay urban Scout. Just to let you know I have been interested in the outdoors and primitive skills since I found Larry Dean Olsenās "Outdoor Survival Skills"n a local bookshop in 1970. I am now 48 (49 on Nov. 9). I canāt bear to be away from the woods, or nature in general, for very long. I have seen the climate change for a long time now.
I still make primitive tools and I am still learning. For example, I always thought the use of antler and stone were how one crafted stone points. It was only after I learned computers and got on the internet that I began to find alternative methods. I have been watching Wild Rix and his learning experiences and I greatly admire him for it.But I still like the old ways better. Costs less.
At present I have one cedar bow in the form, and one being shaped. My website is: http://my.opera.com/mcpet/blogs/. I have pics up now. As I get older I have started moving away from a heavy meat intake and more toward plants. This is taking up some research time. How can people survive in varied climates on mostly gathering wild plant foods? Pretty daunting.
Do not know if it is possible. May not be. But it is my pet project at the moment. How ever the results turn out, I will walk in nature until I return to it for good. I am hoping to live in the wilds in all climate zones, close to the land itself, before I die. Wish me luck.
By the way. When you are in the woods, or the desert, etc., help Mother along. Gather the wild seed from edible, medicinal, and other useful plants, as well as wild flowers. Put them in clay seed balls, and scatter them in the areas you found them. Every little bit helps. Peace.
Welcome, Mark. Iāve lived in MN too! How long did you live there? I spent the first 18 years of my life near Duluth. (Bob Dylan, heās my homie.)
I am sorry I forgot my manners. To th new people joining, I say welcome.
My name is Christopher
I am 24 years old, and live in Rochester, MN
Mark, its good to run into you again, albeit in cyberspace
In case you donāt remember, I crashed at your old 24th st. apartment in Minneap last summer for a about a weekā¦and then stayed on after you and the rest of the gang left for the gathering.
I ended up staying in Minneapolis until February of this year. Since then Iāve been in Rochester, where life has been a lot more tame than in Minneapolisā¦ part of that is that I live at home with the folks, which I am working on changing ASAā¦I can afford it and move on to a living arrangement that will be more than wage/rent slavery. I am currently applying to earthcorps www.earthcorps.org which is an Americorps environmental restoration program centered in Seattle. I hope to use a 10 month stint doing that as a springboard into focused, long term, hands on educational oppurtunities that deal with permaculture, rewilding, and related stuff.
So, that is my intro, my first ever post on this forum
Welcome Barefoot!
Helloness,
I was recently visiting my brother in the land of ports, and I came across SHIFT. From there I met Willem and Eric, who mentioned this forum while explaining eprime. IĆĀ¢Ć¢āĀ¬Ć¢āĀ¢ve been reading some of the discussions for about a month or so now. I donĆĀ¢Ć¢āĀ¬Ć¢āĀ¢t usually have much of interest in forums, but IĆĀ¢Ć¢āĀ¬Ć¢āĀ¢ve really enjoyed what IĆĀ¢Ć¢āĀ¬Ć¢āĀ¢ve read on here.
I am often called Wood, and I was born in Tucson, Arizona, where the desert rams roam, and the saguaros stretch toward the sky. My parentsĆĀ¢Ć¢āĀ¬Ć¢āĀ¢ interests in metaphysics, government conspiracies, tai chi chaun, homeopathy and various other things greatly influenced my childhood. Then for my teenage years, my family migrated to Southern California, and since doing so itĆĀ¢Ć¢āĀ¬Ć¢āĀ¢s been difficult to enjoy this huge cluster of concrete cities centered-around the entertainment industry. I started listening to punk music, able to relate to the critiques of society and governments, and through that was introduced to anarchism. Struggling with depression, I began to discard whatever I felt was unhealthy. The relationship I was in at the time ended, as well as many friendships, and the consumerism that seemed to help ease the unhappiness, lost its meaning for me. Began reading more and more of the myths about the spirits of the land, which spoke to me, and seeped into my imagination. Then a year ago I was given Daniel QuinnĆĀ¢Ć¢āĀ¬Ć¢āĀ¢s Ishmael, and that only set me off more. I was already struggling with trying to stay in college, and when I started an English class centered entirely around American Pop Culture, I guess I just lost it. Threw out the modern medicine, realizing my body was unhealthy, started turning to back to herbs, trying to eat healthier, and spending time amongst the parks and forest preserves still left here.
Rewilding is new to me, and a lot to take in. Mainly itĆĀ¢Ć¢āĀ¬Ć¢āĀ¢s just nice to not feel alone in wishing to leave this civilization, and also to see other fems who care about these things as wellā¦ stepping outside the stereotypes that try to limit us to the world of shopping malls.
-Wood-
Beautiful post, Wood. Yeah, academia can be a bitch when youāre trying to rewild. Probably all that mind control? 
(Half kidding ā¦ or not?)
Yay! Welcome Wood! [It feels] Good to read your thoughts.
Welcome back to the campfire, Wood!
The land around Tucson burned itself into me at an early age, tooāI spent a lot of time outdoors there with my Grampa (before returning to the miles and miles of pavement and pink cinder block wall in SoCal where I lived at the time). Heād get us up at oh-dark-thirty and take us out to Saguaro National Monument to see who we could see. Rattlesnakes climbing up cliffs, javelina families in the arroyo, doves cooing, deer, coyotes, horny toads in the road, quail, jackrabbits, cottontails, roadrunners, a gila monster, palo verde trees, ocotillo, jojoba nuts, barrel cactus fruit, night blooming cereus, mesquite, devilās claws, prickly pears, cholla, wow i miss my grampa. . .
and i almost forgot, the smell of the desert.
Jana
Welcome to the site friend! Your words make me feel happy and honored to read them.
Jana, very beautiful painting (expression) of Saguaro National Monument.
Thanks, Neighbor. I like your new name. Thanks, too, for sharing the story of you and your neighbors the dove and the juniper instead of bossing me around. 
Rebecca, Micpet, Mark from Broklyn, Christopher, how ya doinā¦welcome to the site!? 
Hello, everyone ā
Iāve been lurking around Rewild and the Anthropik network for about half a year now, reading and reading and readingā¦ and I think I feel ready to try contributing what Iāve learned so far (if I can find a way to articulate it). Iām not very well-prepared with the physical skills of re-wilding, but Iām learning, slowly but surely. I suppose most of my journey this far has been mental and emotional (Iāve been an animist all my life, so the spiritual part hasnāt been too tough so far! :D). They say survival is 90% attitude, though - so maybe Iām not too far off the ārightā track anyway. (Though, it has been said that āthere is no one right way to liveā, right?)
I started reading Mr. Quinnās material over a year ago, and it hit a chord with me that Iām sure many of you are all too familiar with. Iāve been telling my friends, relatives, people on the bus, etc. what it means to be āBā, and while I might only be ~5% effective, itās better than being 100% ineffective. Iāve read analogies by several of you about roots and sidewalks - weeds poking up through the pavement, and I feel inspired by what a lot of you have to say. For a while I was beginning to wonder if I was the only person left unchanged by reading Ishmael and the likeā¦ Iām glad to see that is not the case.
I hope to be a reliable poster soon - I have to admit, though, that I sometimes find it difficult to make time to post on the webbernets. (I canāt believe I just said that, but itās true). See you all around!
~ SW