View post: This Renowned Filmmaker Goes in Search of Africa’s Elusive Ghost Elephants As a paddler living in Red Wing, Minnesota, I have spent many enjoyable hours cruising the beautiful rivers and ...

FLUSHING-- Gary Debevec clearly remembers the day he became interested in building cedar-strip canoes and kayaks. One of his two daughters, Nicole, asked him if he was willing to go to her college ...

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 ...

TSAWWASSEN, B.C. — Pushing off one morning from a beach riddled with dead eelgrass, skipper Larry Nahanee plunked a scientific probe into the water and steered the hand-carved cedar canoe toward the ...

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 ...

A Morley Canoe out on Swan Lake. Steve Morley demonstrates planing an oar in the workshop in Swan Lake on Tuesday, October 30. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake) Steve Morley in a newly made canoe out ...

CEDAR CITY, Utah — Floating down the Green River in their handmade canoes, a group of Boy Scouts from Cedar City ran into a rough patch. Brandon Jones is one of the Boy Scout leaders and said they ...