Cedar City • Woodcarver Steve Bartholomew came so close to an elk as a boy that he could see the bull's bloodshot eyes as it racked its horns against a tree. And once he stood still enough that a cow ...

A career in chainsaw carving wasn’t always in Heath Bender’s plans. Marrying a fellow chainsaw artist was even further from his mind. But that’s exactly what happened and Bender, of Cedar Mountain ...

A Michigan master of folk carving whittles white cedar fans and birds of a wooden feather. A Michigan master of folk carving whittles white cedar fans and birds of a wooden feather.

As a 3-year-old, Steven Madison remembers sitting on a totem pole his grandfather was making. By age 12, he was blocking out wood with a chainsaw for his grandfather, Frank Madison, the first step in ...

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) - Jerry Schierholz began carving “comfort birds” several years ago. He read in a magazine about a Pennsylvania carver who made them and because there was a pattern included, he ...

Puyallup tribal members led by elder and culture director Connie McCloud are harvesting sacred cedar on their ancestral lands for the first time in years. “Our reservation has become so urbanized and ...