FAIRBANKS — The University of Alaska Fairbanks will offer a birch bark harvesting workshop from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 27 at Russian Jack Springs Park in Anchorage. The workshop will use storm-downed ...

NORTHWEST ANGLE, Minn. -- When a tribal elder on Lake of the Woods saw the birch bark canoe Talon Stammen was building, the elder was quick with a quip. Talon Stammen of Grand Forks, N.D., built his ...

The Native American art of birch bark biting requires practitioners to envision a design while biting down on a folded strip of thin, pliable tree bark. Birch bark biters punch small holes in the bark ...

Mid-winter is my favorite time to harvest birch for sweet-flavored food and warming beverages. Birch trees are easy to identify in winter thanks to their distinctive bark. The bark is an eye-catching ...

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," ...

Thus, the new rules* apply to organizations and individual entrepreneurs who harvest deadwood, stumps, birch bark, bark of trees and shrubs, brushwood, twig fodder, spruce, fir and pine paws, firs, ...

Todd Labrador’s Mi’kmaq family has been building birch bark canoes for generations at Kejimkujik National Park and Historic Site in Nova Scotia. “At one time when we harvested birch bark, we'd put our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Todd Labrador’s Mi’kmaq family has been building birch bark canoes for generations at Kejimkujik National Park and Historic Site ...