WILDERNESS SURVIVAL: Do you know what to have with 
you when you are in a wilderness area ... find out on 
Passport to Texas.
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Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

If you like visiting wilderness locations, then you need to 
be prepared in case you get turned around or separated 
from your group. You need the right stuff. 

David Owens is a state park interpreter who teaches 
wilderness survival training to children. Young or old, 
there are items every adventurer needs to carry with 
them when trekking through the wilds.

We like them to have water. That's one of the main things that 
makes kids sick, you get dehydrated. The second thing we like 
them to take, and we call it the most important piece of 
equipment, a plastic garbage sack. Believe it or not, you can do 
a lot of things with a plastic garbage sack. But the most 
important is to use it as a raincoat or a coat in general. We 
teach them how to do that, how to put it on, how to keep 
themselves warm and dry. Then we teach them the right clothes 
to wear, bright colored clothes, and a hat. And take a jacket if 
you have room to pack it away. It might be hot that day, but it 
might be cool that night. We teach them to bring a mirror, and 
we show them how to use a mirror, how they can signal aircraft 
or people far off with their mirror. And we tell them to bring a 
whistle, and teach them when to use that whistle. Those are the 
main things we teach them that they can take. :52

Learn more about the outdoors when you log onto the 
Texas Parks and Wildlife Website.

That's our show for today ... for Texas Parks and 
Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.