I have some native friends in the area around Eagle Plains, Yukon Territories, in the Canadian Arctic, at the northern edge of our Boreal Forest. They have a huge artificial greenhouse in an old abandoned gold mine. To have access to the herbs & tropical fruit they grow, one must be both a tribe member and either a tribal hunter or a tribal gatherer. I became the blood brother to Chief George Thundercloud (a whole other story) ... and to become a tribal hunter, I had to pass an ancient test ... on the new moon of mid spring, I walked bare hand, bare foot, bare balls, naked into the forest ... two weeks later, on the full moon, I returned with bear skin clothing, wood & stone tools & weapons, and a travois loaded with a bear, several rabbits, fish, some berries and local herbs ... these I gave to the tribe and became one of their hunters. The test was a difficult experience. Unlike my military survival tests where I just had to stay alive, this test required me to take nothing into the forest, yet return with a feast for the whole tribe. The two weeks were spent in the wild, not just watching wild animals, but carefully choosing which ones to let live and which ones to hunt, using only what one can gather from the forest as a tool/weapon. This then led to the several times that I went along on a whole tribe - caribou hunt, where we followed a herd for several weeks, selectively taking one caribou at a time.