Perhaps no single item in the traditional economy combines finesse and craftsmanship better than the birch-bark canoe - historically the principal mode of transportation and cargo-freighting for ...

Learn 8 steps to a bark canoe in our Forest Alchemist feature from ... Tall, straight white birch trees with a trunk diameter of at least 12 inches are scarce. Byers uses a ladder to strip the ...

to the ruggedness of a seagoing cedar canoe, from cleverly assembled birch bark, to the shiny fiberglass, or the comfy inflatable. Early explorers and voyageurs took their cue from the Aboriginal ...