Arizona Bushman

John Campbell is a former desert survival instructor from Arizona. He has been into wilderness survival since the age of eight. He grew up in Oklahoma in a small town called Holson Valley. During heavy rains and ice storms, he and his family would be trapped for weeks at a time. Hunting, fishing, trapping, and gardening became a way of life. The family would even raise their own food animals for sustainment during these hard times. At age 11, he joined the Boy Scouts. He was active with them for five years and moved onto the Explorer Scouts. There were always plenty of outings and opportunities to be outdoors. Learning Wilderness Survival Skills were always a key note on these outings. Growing up he also had many Native American friends from the Cherokee and Choctaw Tribes. They would hike and camp for days on end practicing ancestral skills. Snakes, fish, bugs, and wild edibles were on the menu. Nights were spent in a natural shelter. After graduating from high school in 1995, he traveled to Louisiana and Mississippi practicing Swamp Survival Skills, he practiced there for 6 months. He spent a year in Galveston and traveled to Gulf Shores, Alabama studying Coastal Survival Skills. In 1998, he moved to Arizona. In 2003, he attended a class from one of the world's top instructors. He has been practicing Desert Survival and Primitive skills ever since. John is now a knife designer and has made appearances in knife magazines as well as appearing on the Discovery Channel. John has also worked with one of the top names in the survival field during the filming of a Television pilot for the History Channel. John is also an accomplished photographer. Many of his photographs have been published in magazines as well as used in news broadcasts. He has been taking his photography seriously since 2006, although he is unsure of the date, he has been actively woking with photography for over 17 years. John is also a film shooter. His preferred film is 35mm and has been taking film photographs for around 6 years.