Cody Lundins Blog

At ALSS it’s about learning by experience in the field. Do you know how you would react being lost in the wilderness and just having the bare bones for survival gear. The Desert Drifter course  is about stripping down to basics and change what you know about living in the wilderness. With your tribe your trek into the [...]

YERBA SANTA (Eriodictyon spp.)  This is a Southwestern USA plant, with most species found in California and even northward into Oregon.  E. angustifolium, with its more narrow leaves, is common in Arizona in the lower central mountains and all the way north into southern Nevada and southwestern Utah.  It is an aromatic plant with white, [...]

Although many scenarios exist that are virtually impossible to sleep thru, strive to get as much sleep as you can, when you can. Humans require about seven to eight hours of sleep each night depending on age and other individual factors yet research as shown the importance of achieving a minimum of 4.5 to 5.5 [...]

Arizona like other desert states present amazing beauty with numerous hidden dangers to the un-trained eye. Unquie to Arizona is that all four North American deserts, the GreatBasin, Sonoran,Mojave and the Chihuahuan are all native to Arizona. While each vary in their flora and fauna, all present a challenge to those who venture into them unprepared. [...]

YARROW (Achillea millefolium) is found throughout the Northern Hemisphere and is easily recognizable with its finely dissected, feathery leaves, woolly-hairy stems, and flat topped terminal clusters of small white to pinkish-white flowers.  Some cultivars of yarrow have been developed for the floral industry with yellow, red or peach-colored flowers, although the white flowered wild species seems to [...]