Geoff has a background in professional game and deer management, he has put his years of experience to good use and now lectures at Hartpury College, one of the UK’s leading providers of land-based education.
He specializes in training game and wildlife managers who will go on to work in professional game management, conservation, and other outdoor professions. He's been teaching at colleges for eight years and in that time has worked at some of the most prestigious land-based colleges in Britain.
Tomahawks are iconic of the conflicts between Native American’s and settlers on the North American frontiers. But while it might be interesting to see these artifacts in museums and in movies there is also plenty of modern-day uses of tomahawks and...
A knife is often said to be the most vital tool for wilderness survival, and while there is a strong argument for an axe being at least as important and possibly even more important, especially for long term survival in boreal forests, nine times...
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