As a paddler living in Red Wing, Minnesota, I have spent many enjoyable hours cruising the beautiful rivers and lakes located just a few miles from my home. Last winter, while the ice thickened and ...

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 ...

"The canoe implies a long antiquity in which its manufacture has been gradually perfected. It will ere long, perhaps, be ranked among the lost arts." — Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods The ...

PORT ANGELES — Darrell Charles Jr. rubbed his hand along the side of the 30-foot cedar canoe he’s begun and talked proudly about how the vessel will develop into a piece of art. Charles began the ...

PORT ANGELES — Hand-carved cedar canoes — lots of them — will spend 10 days navigating the waters of the North Olympic Peninsula later this week. It all begins Friday with the Tribal Canoe Journey’s ...

The Gladwin Conservation District and Friends of the District will bring a Cedar River canoe race to the community between the cities of Gladwin and Beaverton next spring. Zach Bates and Tristan ...

GRAND FORKS — They’re flying off the bridge and into the water one by one, more than 80 miniature canoes headed down the Red River, launched with great enthusiasm from the Lincoln Park walking bridge ...