Enhance your outdoor survival skills and knowledge in one-day classes on wilderness survival and wild edible foraging at New River Community and Technical College’s Greenbrier Valley Campus, Lewisburg.

Students will receive expert instruction in building fires, creating traps and snares, establishing shelter, foraging for food, finding and purifying water, and making ropes and twine.

Instructor W. Todd Longanacre is the Park Superintendent/Park Ranger for the WV Division of Natural Resources at Moncove Lake State Park in Gap Mills, WV. He is a former Army paratrooper and a 29-year combat veteran of the United States Army with multiple overseas tours.  Major Longanacre retired from the military in May 2015 and relocated back to West Virginia. He holds two undergraduate degrees, one in forestry and the other in biology with an emphasis in the natural sciences, and a Master of Science in Organizational Behavior.

The one-day wilderness survival class will be offered on five dates: Oct.12 and 26 and Nov. 2, 16, and 30. The cost is $95.

New River CTC’s Workforce Education Division provides community education classes and employable educational opportunities including noncredit courses, workforce development programs and customized training.

For more information about community education classes at New River CTC or to register contact Gloria Kincaid at 304-793-6101, gkincaid@newriver.edu or Jeanne Stone at 304-883-2469, vstone@newriver.edu.