Natural Fire Starting Element Collection:
I have been guilty of relying on my homemade FirePad and
Waxball fire starters so this year I have decided to make several trips to
process materials for fire stating. In just about two hours I collected and
processed a full bag of fat wood and a full bag of bird nest material (mostly
made up tulip poplar shavings- couldn’t find any good birch trees today). 
A few pointers from the trip:
1)
A pine that has been dead for a few years
provides great fat wood, if you find one that is slightly off the ground it
seems to have a better likelihood of providing good fatwood
2)
A Bacho Laplander paired with a Mora Bushcraft
Black makes easy work of processing all of your fire starting needs.
3)
Tulip Poplar (tallest tree in the eastern
woodlands- identified by a lack of branches low on the tree and you will see
black spots where the branches used to be) limbs shaved with the back of a
knife works great for bird nest material
4)
After processing the tulip poplar and the
fatwood the material needed dried before storage to ensure it was 100% ready
for immediate fire starting so I laid out all of the materials out in-front of a
small electric heater to help take the moisture out…. Remember wet tinder
without an accelerant can lead to a cold wet night.
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