Survival
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![A knife beside a morel cut in half in preparation for cooking morel mushroom recipes.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/28/AdobeStock_morels.jpg?w=676)
Foraging & Gardening
The Best Morel Mushroom Recipes
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Camping Gear
The Best Solar Chargers of 2024, Tested and Reviewed
![A female grizzly on a snow-covered ridge.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/montana_shed_hunter_kills_grizzly.jpg?w=675)
Animal Attacks
Shed Hunter Kills Charging Grizzly with a Handgun in Montana
![A close-up of an alligator in Florida.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/gator_attack_run_over_by_car_1.jpg?w=720)
Animal Attacks
Florida Man Runs Over Gator to Save His Neighbor
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Camping Gear
How to Sharpen an Axe
![A morel mushroom on a normal camera and a thermal imaging camera.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/morel_mushroom_on_thermal.jpg?w=800)
Foraging & Gardening
Watch: Man Uses Thermal to Find Morels, Gets Skewered on Instagram
![A man fells a tree.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/fell_a_tree_feature.jpg?w=720)
Foraging & Gardening
How to Fell a Tree
![An alligator lays on a golf course.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/alligator_golf_course.jpg?w=766)
Animal Attacks
Gator Bites Off Fisherman’s Hand on a Florida Golf Course
![A sow black bear and three cubs sit near a tree.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/black_bear_attacks_woman.jpg?w=800)
Animal Attacks
Black Bear Attacks Pennsylvania Woman in Her Own Backyard
![An illustration of the last grizzly bear in Colorado attacking a hunter.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/killing_last_griz_colorado.jpg?w=800)
Animal Attacks
I Killed the Last Grizzly in Colorado
![wolf attack](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/wolfattack.jpg?w=780)
Animal Attacks
A Wolf Attacked My Dog and Then Charged at Me
![Bear tracks walk through snow on a path in the woods.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/animal_tracks_feature.jpg?w=799)
Survival
A Complete Guide to Animal Tracks
![A grizzly bear runs fast through water toward the camera.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/10/grizzly_bear_running_feature.jpg?w=801)
Animal Attacks
How Fast Can a Bear Run?
![Springfield Armory XD-M Elite 3.8-inch Compact OSP 10mm with light and red dot](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/09/IMG_6647-scaled.jpeg?w=600)
Animal Attacks
The Best Bear Defense Handguns of 2024
![redwood bushcraft 1](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/redwood_bushcraft_1.jpg?w=666)
Survival
A Beginner’s Guide to Bushcraft
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Animal Attacks
The Ultimate Guide to Great White Shark Attacks
![white-tailed deer running in front of car](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/deadliest_animal_in_the_world-2.jpg?w=800)
Animal Attacks
What Is the Deadliest Animal in the World?
![scottish stags](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/22/F2DJRQ75H767UGERA7YPGOFB3I.png?w=762)
Big Game Hunting
Starvation Island: Hunting Scotland’s Stags to Survive
![how long can you survive without food](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/28/GettyImages-1277043859.jpg?w=600)
Adventure
How Long Can You Survive Without Food?
![How to Tan a Deer Hide, the Easy Way](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/16/AFEIY2ABRLPMDSYZSBX5ZFAXNU.jpg?w=600)
Big Game Hunting
How to Tan a Deer Hide, the Easy Way
![ground blind in midwest](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/16/deer_hunter_dies_in_blind_fire.jpg?w=800)
Big Game Hunting
75-Year-Old Deer Hunter Dies After Blind Catches Fire
![bull elk in arizona](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/08/elk_attack_arizona.jpg?w=692)
Animal Attacks
Arizona Woman Trampled to Death by an Elk in Her Backyard
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Survival