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 ...

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 ...

View post: This Genius Diaper Bag Fits Everything You Need for Travel. It's the Best I Reviewed for Men's Journal's Travel Awards As a paddler living in Red Wing, Minnesota, I have spent many ...

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 ...

Learn 8 steps to a bark canoe in our Forest Alchemist feature from the June issue of Canoe & Kayak magazine. Tom Byers shapes a white cedar rib with a crooked knife at his backwoods homestead. Photo: ...

He is a weaver of stories and teller of jokes, a singer of songs, a teacher who is always learning from his students. He also is a carver of huge, solid cedar canoes. Robert Peele, a 52-year-old ...

WASHINGTON — For centuries, the cedar canoes of the Coast Salish Indians have plied the inland waters of Washington state and British Columbia, carrying trading goods, raiding parties and families ...

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 ...

There is something about a wooden boat that should be facsinating to most makers, the craftsmanship and level of work that goes into creating a sea-, lake-, or river-worthy craft with smooth lines, ...