Glad to have you here...
When I think back at all the knowledge that I could have gotten from the older people when I was a kid...
But I was not interested in the outdoors when I was a kid(except for shooting).
I have some OLD camping and survival books, and if I showed them to any of the modern campers, they would probably have a heart attack when they saw that people would cut wood and actually make a raised bed to sleep on. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Some of them are big in the leave-no-trace movement and think that because an archaeologist can find somewhere where a fire was made thousands of years ago, that you should not make a campfire... <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> It is sad really... So much knowledge is being lost every year... I am glad that the internet came along when it did, or we would probably loose all of the old knowledge...
Sites like http://www.outdoors-magazine.com/ are keeping the old knowledge alive and even trying to rediscover lost information by doing things like study old tools, like axes and knives to find out WHY they were made like they were...