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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Greg Morley trims fiberglass fabric from a canoe he’s building at his shop in Swan Lake. Morley has been building canoes since the 1960s, and his wood and fiberglass technique results in a canoe ...

HAWICK -- There are two different kinds of people who craft their own cedar strip canoes, according to David "Duke" Hassinger. "Some people like to have the ones they can hang on the garage wall to ...