Tactical

For years, officials, water managers, and politicians have watched Lake Mead slide lower and lower while pretending there was still plenty of time to figure it out. Now that game is ending. The country’s biggest reservoir just dropped to a new record low, Hoover Dam is getting dangerously close to the point where it loses most of its generating capacity, ...

Open five articles promising the “ultimate survival kit” and you will usually find the same collection of gear listed in almost the same order. A ferro rod, some paracord, a Mylar blanket, a tactical flashlight, a folding saw, a multitool, a filter straw, waterproof matches, a whistle, a compass, a first-aid pouch and some kind of hollow-handle knife stuffed with ...