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," ...

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 ...

Most of us in canoe country are looking for canoes that are faster and lighter. Not Jon Rahkola of Barnum and his engineering buddies at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Their assignment was to ...

LAKE PARK, Minn. — A Lark Park Audubon High School senior is celebrating the fruits of his labor. Collin Curran knew he wanted to make something ambitious as part of his spring independent project, ...

There's no room for a car in the Kesselhon garage. Instead, the space is taken up by cedar strip canoes in various stages of construction. Forms for more hang from the rafters. Welcome to the Lakeside ...

OAK GROVE, Minn. — Inside an unassuming workshop, Jesse Gerhard is painstakingly building a canoe with locally discarded wood. "This is from a church in Crystal, the actual plywood. The redwood is ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Seventh-grade students at Delhi Middle School got to team up with the Cincinnati Urban Wilderness Program on Thursday to build a canoe from start ...