HARBIN - One man's trash is another man's treasure. This is especially the case for Tao Dandan, who collects pieces of birch bark dumped by wood processing plants and creates handicraft with them ...

What’s better this fall than taking leisurely family walks to grab some fresh air and enjoy the stimulation of the outdoors? Making crafts with bark can be a fun family activity. (Courtesy of Donna ...

Every year around this time, Deborah Bushinski leaves her Minnetonka home studio, pulls on her rubber Wellington boots and tromps through a marshy birch grove west of Duluth. The trees she seeks are ...

A northern Michigan resident makes canoes and other items the old-fashioned way. MIDLAND -- Michigan has abundant natural resources. For Jim A. Miller, such abundance is fuel for his art. The Chippewa ...

NORTHWEST ANGLE, Minn. -- When a tribal elder on Lake of the Woods saw the birch bark canoe Talon Stammen was building, the native was quick with a quip. "You know they make those in Fiberglas now," ...

The bark canoe of the Chippeways [Ojibwe] I is, perhaps, the most beautiful and light model of all the water crafts that were ever invented. They are generally made complete with the rind of one birch ...

A chance encounter with a magazine at a post office in Uranium City, Sask., led Angelique Merasty Levac to a life she never expected, as one of the most celebrated birch bark biters in the world. In ...

College students have spent weeks scouring the woods for bark, roots, and special wood in order to build a traditional birch bark canoe. The students in the aboriginal arts program at the New ...

When Jennifer Nasimiyu arrived in the United States in 1994, the bride of an American who had fallen in love with her in Kenya, she wasn't too impressed. "It was very strange. People walking fast and ...