There are threads about TV shows that reveal survival techniques.
If have you have read "The Last American Man" then you have seen how these skills can be used on an AT hike. Interestingly, people have used the same basic technologies to survive on 6 continents and islands.
I invite you all to Caribbean Bush Skills Rendezvous in St. Croix, Mach 2009..... to learn them by hand.
http://www.visfi.org/cms/index.php/programs/skills2
http://www.visfi.org/Bushskills08/index.html