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 ...

As a paddler living in Red Wing, Minnesota, I have spent many enjoyable hours cruising the beautiful rivers and lakes located just a few miles from my home. Last winter, while the ice thickened and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2015, I won an Adirondack cedar strip canoe at the Putney Grammar School Raffle, at the Strolling of the Heifers. The canoe was lovingly donated to the raffle by master craftsman and woodworker ...

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 ...

It's a Kootenai canoe, a boat as native to these waters as the cedar it's made from. "I always wanted to paddle one, here in its home range," Morley said. Problem was, all the remaining Kootenai ...

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 ...

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, ...