The scent of spruce pitch sizzling over the fire in a tin pail fills the evening air as I gum the seams of a birch bark canoe for its maiden journey on Lake of the Woods. Having taken every ...

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 ...

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," ...

Ralph Frese, 85, owner of Chicagoland Canoe Base on Chicago's Northwest Side, is working in conjunction with a museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, to restore an old birch bark canoe. "This canoe is ...

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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 ...

World travel for birch bark canoe Marvin DeFoe paddled his first birch bark canoe part way down the Mississippi River. He didn't make it all that far -- at 18, his urge to get going was stronger than ...

LAC DU FLAMBEAU - People along the shore were yelling “Good luck, Wayne!” as Wayne Valliere paddled into the starlit night aboard his torch-laden birchbark canoe equipped with a handmade spear. One of ...

BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) — 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 ...

One of the oldest-known Native American birch-bark canoes, dated from the mid-1700's, is displayed at the Pejepscot Museum & Research Center in Brunswick, Maine, Thursday Oct. 5, 2017. The society ...