#birchbark

three tools.
and the results where quick.
People take their time in harvesting and processing things in the field too much.
Efficient is efficient to effective.

This is a rather handy thing to have, let alone take preparations and time to harvest and take them home to dry and be used later on as simple effective firestarters.

This particular skill can be considered primitive or bushcrafty. But then again, I never claimed to be a bushcrafter nor survivalist type of person.

Just using what I find to be handy for the field and given it's a dead tree, mind as well make the most of it.

White Paper Birch Burns well.