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Online survival websites, forums, and blogs discuss the best locales for survival retreats, how to build, fortify, and equip them, and how to form survivalist retreat groups.<ref>[http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=survivalist&submit=Search Yahoo! Groups : Search Results]</ref>

Online survival websites, forums, and blogs discuss the best locales for survival retreats, how to build, fortify, and equip them, and how to form survivalist retreat groups.<ref>[http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=survivalist&submit=Search Yahoo! Groups : Search Results]</ref>

Economic troubles emerging from the credit collapse triggered by the 2007 US [[Subprime loan|subprime mortgage]] lending crisis prompted some people to establish retreats.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/fashion/06survival.html</ref> [[James Wesley Rawles]], the editor of SurvivalBlog was quoted by the ''New York Times'' in April 2008 that "interest in the survivalist movement 'is experiencing its largest growth since the late 1970s'”. He also stated that his blog's conservative core readership has been supplemented with "an increasing number of stridently green and left-of-center readers."<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/fashion/06survival.html</ref>

Economic troubles emerging from the credit collapse triggered by the 2007 US [[Subprime loan|subprime mortgage]] lending crisis prompted some people to establish retreats.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/fashion/06survival.html</ref> [[James Wesley Rawles]], the editor of SurvivalBlog was quoted by the ''New York Times'' in April 2008 that "interest in the survivalist movement 'is experiencing its largest growth since the late 1970s'”. He also stated that his blog's conservative core readership has been supplemented with "an increasing number of stridently green and left-of-center readers."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/fashion/06survival.html</ref>

==Common retreat locale parameters==

==Common retreat locale parameters==

In their books, Joel Skousen, Mel Tappan and Howard Ruff all emphasize the need to have a one-year supply of storage food.  Rawles recommends a two-year supply, as well as storing non-hybrid (open pollinated) gardening seed.

In their books, Joel Skousen, Mel Tappan and Howard Ruff all emphasize the need to have a one-year supply of storage food.  Rawles recommends a two-year supply, as well as storing non-hybrid (open pollinated) gardening seed.

Even mainstream economist and financial adviser Barton Biggs is a proponent of well-stocked retreats. In his 2008 book ''Wealth, War and Wisdom'', Biggs has a gloomy outlook for the economic future, and suggests that investors take survivalist measures.  In the book, Biggs recommends that his readers  should “assume the possibility of a breakdown of the civilized infrastructure.” he goes so far as to recommend setting up survival retreats: “Your safe haven must be self-sufficient and capable of growing some kind of food,” Mr. Biggs writes. “It should be well-stocked with seed, fertilizer, canned food, wine, medicine, clothes, etc. Think Swiss Family Robinson. Even in America and Europe there could be moments of riot and rebellion when law and order temporarily completely breaks down.”<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/fashion/06survival.html</ref>

Even mainstream economist and financial adviser Barton Biggs is a proponent of well-stocked retreats. In his 2008 book ''Wealth, War and Wisdom'', Biggs has a gloomy outlook for the economic future, and suggests that investors take survivalist measures.  In the book, Biggs recommends that his readers  should “assume the possibility of a breakdown of the civilized infrastructure.” he goes so far as to recommend setting up survival retreats: “Your safe haven must be self-sufficient and capable of growing some kind of food,” Mr. Biggs writes. “It should be well-stocked with seed, fertilizer, canned food, wine, medicine, clothes, etc. Think Swiss Family Robinson. Even in America and Europe there could be moments of riot and rebellion when law and order temporarily completely breaks down.”<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/fashion/06survival.html</ref>

==Survivalist retreats worldwide==

==Survivalist retreats worldwide==