To me Bushcraft is the study and practice of primitive skills and the practice of minimalist camping using the most basic of tools. This could vary greatly from place to place. The one thing that I always try to keep in mind is that no matter where you are, humans have most likely thrived at one time or another with what's there and nothing else, so by learning the skills of our ancestors we can live in the "Bush" with little or no modern tools and or dependance on them.

The one philosophy that really stuck with me from the little training I've had, is that when your in the "Bush" as long as you depend on modern supplies, you are not all that different from a scuba diver depending on an air supply, if the air supply is cut off, you die. If you depend totally on modern equipment and don't learn and practice the Bushcraft skills that apply to your area then you are always vulnerable to "drowning" so to speak if anything cataclysmic were to happen.

I've always liked the saying the richest man in the world is not the one with the most stuff, it's the man who needs the least. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />