Outdoor Survival Techniques
Course: WFS-5260
Continuing Education Units: 2.90
Description:
Learn the essential skills you need to survive in a remote and/or stranded condition. In this course, you will learn how to shape your attitudes so you react appropriately during emergencies. You will develop a survival kit; learn the proper usage of a map and a compass; discover the secret to making fire without matches or lighters; share in the construction of a solar still; learn how to purify any water source; understand how to construct shelter; identify a wide variety of wild plants that can be used as survival foods; find out how to fish, hunt, and trap for protein; understand a variety of effective uses of cordage; and more.
Contact P. L. Allen, Chair, if you have any questions pertaining to this course.
Last Update: October 10, 2008