Outdoor Education: How to Make a Birch-Bark Splint
You're on an outdoor education trip and a student breaks an arm. Fortunately, bush-savvy leader that you are, you can make a splint from materials available to you in the deep woods.
Or, even if nobody is hurt, you could construct a birch-bark splint to give your students a demonstration on resourcefulness in the bush.
How to Make a Birch-Bark Splint
You'll need a birch tree as big around as the broken arm or leg.
Your makeshift splint will support your student comfortably until you can get him/her to medical attention.
References:
1. Jim Duff, Pocket First Aid & Wilderness Medicine (Mini Guide) , Cicerone; 2nd edition, 2012.
2. Bradford Algier, Wilderness Gear You Can Make Yourself, Collier Books; 2nd printing edition, 1974.
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