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 ...

"The canoe implies a long antiquity in which its manufacture has been gradually perfected. It will ere long, perhaps, be ranked among the lost arts." — Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods The ...

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 ...

A Morley Canoe out on Swan Lake. Steve Morley demonstrates planing an oar in the workshop in Swan Lake on Tuesday, October 30. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake) Steve Morley in a newly made canoe out ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...