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Anywhere you can find a fresh spring. They exist in abundance in Wisconsin, NE Minnesota, and Michigan. Not sure about other areas. You also have deer and firewood and privacy from the woods and hilly terrain along with low population density relatively speaking.
The winters are long and cold but you have the firewood, and plenty of snow to melt for water if you live along a lake effect snowbelt. You could make a go of it if you had a spring in the summer, ample snow in the winter, and the ability to hunt and gut animals.
The cold will let you store their carcasses for a longer period of time.
Anywhere you can find a fresh spring. They exist in abundance in Wisconsin, NE Minnesota, and Michigan. Not sure about other areas. You also have deer and firewood and privacy from the woods and hilly terrain along with low population density relatively speaking.
The winters are long and cold but you have the firewood, and plenty of snow to melt for water if you live along a lake effect snowbelt. You could make a go of it if you had a spring in the summer, ample snow in the winter, and the ability to hunt and gut animals.
The cold will let you store their carcasses for a longer period of time.
I'd say northern Maine fulfills those criteria very well, but I don't want too many people moving here!
the moose that McCandles was probably a calf, and even a huge male is NOT '1000" lbs of meat. Only a bit over half of an animal's live weight is edible meat. So he probably let rot "only" 100 lbs of meat (he did eat quite a bit of it). But yes, McCandless was a moron. He'd lived in Alaska for 2 years and had learned nothing, obviously, about the dangers and how to abate them.
For starters, why not have some salt, for flavoring and preserving meat, eh? Why have nothing more than a .22 rifle in the ultimate big-game country? If he'd jerked 30 lbs (or so) of the moose, he could have walked downriver to a point where the current was slowed down, and use some sort of field-expedient floatation-device to cross the water. Or just waited-out the flood, "scored" more meat, etc. The investigators "thought" that he in effect poisoned himself when he stored wild potatoes in plastic bags. The taters went bad and gave him food-poisoning,
I have lived in many places. If I were going to squat on land somewhere, I would say one of these two regions. Since I chose to buy land, rather than to squat, I chose Maine. I have owned property in Washington, but I could not afford to stay there on my pension.
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