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Answer for the clue "Skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping) ", 9 letters:
woodcraft

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Woodcraft is a recreational/educational program devised by Ernest Thompson Seton in 1902, for young people based on camping, outdoor skills and woodcrafts . Thompson Seton's Woodcraft ideas were incorporated into the early Scout movement , but also in many ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of the skills related to a woodland habitat, especially those relating to outdoor survival; these skills collectively 2 (context uncountable English) The skill of woodcarving

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping) skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Woodcraft \Wood"craft`\, n. Skill and practice in anything pertaining to the woods, especially in shooting, and other sports in the woods. Men of the glade and forest! leave Your woodcraft for the field of fight. --Bryant.

Usage examples of woodcraft.

We other hunters wore the hunting gear of woodcraft, namely, skull caps of deer hide, surmounted by the feathers of the eagle, the heron, or the bittern, while here and there was a cap with the wing of the wild goose across the front.

She was humiliated and angry--it was long before she would admit it, that she, who prided herself upon her woodcraft, was lost in this little patch of country between the Pangani and the Tanga railway.

The others were given the afternoon to range the island and practice up their woodcraft and landmark work, while Rob busied himself in his tent, which was equipped with a small folding camp table, in filling out his pink blank reports which were to be forwarded to Commodore Wingate and dispatched by him to the headquarters of the Boy Scouts in New York.

Now he was ten, now twelve, now fourteen--a sturdy young mountaineer, with the sinews of an athlete, and a store of learning, not from books, for he had never known a school, but from the simple teaching of his parents and the unlimited knowledge of woodcraft, of the habits of wild things, of mountain peaks, of plants, of animals, insects and birds, and of the incessant hunt for food that must always be when one lives beyond the pale of civilized markets.

But though the spoor left by the fifty frightful men, unversed in woodcraft as they were, would have been as plain to the densest denizen of the jungle as a city street to the Englishman, yet he crossed and recrossed it twenty times without observing the slightest indication that many men had passed that way but a few short hours since.

I taught archery, riding, swimming, diving, woodcraft, judo, finger painting, and track.

Close behind the pack rode a fourrier and a yeoman-pricker, whooping on the laggards and encouraging the leaders, in the shrill half-French jargon which was the language of venery and woodcraft.

Richard was never entirely happy riding as the Hillfolk rode, but he had a talent for woodcraft and archery that might almost have been a Gift.

The Rangers were very fond of pointing out that the deputies only had police powers inside Hades, and were scarcely less fond of observing that they were a purely urban force, with no training in field survival, or any sort of woodcraft.

That—and the grain, leathers, and woodcrafts they bring—indicates that they have a permanent base somewhere.

They drove up the street, parked at the Cracker Barrel and went into the rustic restaurant, Sally pausing to look at a display of Early American woodcrafts, glasswares and old-fashioned candies, homemade preserves, smoked sausage and country-cured hams hanging on the walls of the gift shop.

I assumed, for instance, her ignorance of woodstoves and outhouses and gardening, woodcraft and carpentry and such things.