MONTEVIDEO -- Whether the preferred mode of travel is by boat, hiking shoes or all-terrain-vehicle, our means of getting around in the great outdoors is usually the product of modern industry. Not so ...

WADENA, Minn. — Wadena-Deer Creek senior Cody Wheeler was down to the deadline to decide what his woodworking project was going to be for his shop class last winter. A last-minute decision brought him ...

FLUSHING-- Gary Debevec clearly remembers the day he became interested in building cedar-strip canoes and kayaks. One of his two daughters, Nicole, asked him if he was willing to go to her college ...

PORT ANGELES — Hand-carved cedar canoes — lots of them — will spend 10 days navigating the waters of the North Olympic Peninsula later this week. It all begins Friday with the Tribal Canoe Journey’s ...

BIGFORK, Minn. - In his dilapidated workshop steeped in cedar sawdust and family history, Ray Boessel frets over his role in keeping a centuries-old craft alive. The craft is building birchbark canoes ...

SUQUAMISH – For hundreds of years, canoes have been integral to the Suquamish tribe – the “people of the clear salt water” – and many other Coast Salish tribes. The canoes, carefully crafted from ...

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — Smoke from burning sweetgrass drifted over the 35-foot-long dugout cedar canoe and its seven paddlers. Words of prayer and blessing were spoken, seeking protection for the trip ...

The Gladwin Conservation District and Friends of the District will bring a Cedar River canoe race to the community between the cities of Gladwin and Beaverton next spring. Zach Bates and Tristan ...