As it turns out, building a cedar-strip canoe is much more complicated than Kyle Bissell would have ever imagined. Armed with ...

Eds Note: When 15-year-old aspiring outdoor photographer Clayton Simoncic learned his 18-year-old cousin, Xander Davenport, was building a cedar-strip canoe near Simoncic’s home in southern Maine, he ...

You can't buy one of Kevin Fredericks' gleaming cedar-strip canoes. He has built four of them now and has another one in the works. He has no idea who will someday own it. But it isn't for sale. "I've ...

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Gonzaga Prep wrestlers are pinning their annual fundraising goals on a 17-foot, cedar-strip canoe they built with their own hands. “We started during summer and we’re just doing the hand-caned bamboo ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ST. ANSGAR — For many in Mitchell County, the Cedar River is a fixture of summer fun and fall hiking and sightseeing. The season wouldn’t be complete however, without a dip in the flowing water. It ...

PADDLING – Gonzaga Prep wresters are pinning their annual fundraising goals on a 17-foot cedar-strip canoe they built with their own hands. “We started during summer and we’re just doing the ...