She takes us through her step by step process of creating one of her birch bark paintings. We see how a piece of fallen birch in the Pequot Lakes area can be used as a canvas and a piece of jewelry.

made from birch pitch that oozed from birch bark after being heated. The ancient Northern Europeans might have chewed the pitch for many reasons. They might have chewed on pitch before using it to ...

Known as the state tree of New Hampshire, the paper birch (Betula papyrifera) is commonly referred to as a ‘poor man’s fire starter.’ The trees’ characteristic white papery bark is impossible to miss ...