NORTHWEST ANGLE, Minn. -- When a tribal elder on Lake of the Woods saw the birch bark canoe Talon Stammen was building, the native was quick with a quip. "You know they make those in Fiberglas now," ...

Sarah Bowman of Nature's Canvas creates works of art by recycling materials from nature. Sarah Bowman of Nature's Canvas creates works of art by recycling materials from nature. She takes us through ...

Dan Blessing and Marc VanGrinsven’s 4,000 mile journey from Lake Superior to the Pacific Ocean in a homemade birch-bark canoe. Marc and I were leading 22-day Outward Bound trips when we started ...

BRUNSWICK, Maine – One of the oldest-known examples of a Native American birch-bark canoe is on display at a museum in Maine, where indigenous tribes have used them for thousands of years. The canoe ...

ADA TOWNSHIP -- As Kevin Finney held a blade against the end of a slender piece of clear cedar, 11-year-old Lydia Hughes gingerly pounded in the knife with a mallet about as big as her head. “Just a ...

Editor's Note: This column first appeared in the York Weekly in 2013. Paper birch (also called white birch) is an iconic tree of the north and probably our most easily recognized tree because of its ...