A canoe built using traditional Micronesian techniques has made its maiden voyage up the River Foyle. The 8ft (2.34m) canoe was made from a tree felled at the Brook Hall Estate in Londonderry during a ...

Did ancient Indigenous peoples "bioengineer" the oak wood that was used to build at least some of the ancient canoes that have been discovered in Lake Mendota? That's what researchers are trying to ...

“So you’re starting to see what I mean about all the sanding?” says Ron Pellinen, my wooden canoe-building mentor, when I walk into his shop on a brisk March morning in Northern Ontario. Perched on an ...

It’s been over five years since a Craigslist post advertising a well-used wood-canvas canoe grabbed my attention and started an addiction I cannot seem to shake. I spent the winter working on that ...

The latest find is likely from the 16th century and could have originated as far away as the Caribbean Florida already claims to be the world capital of golf, shark bites and lightning strikes. Now a ...

Lower Elwha Klallam tribal members will cut down a 165-foot western cedar today to be carved into an ocean-going ceremonial canoe. Tribal Executive Director John Miller said the 10-foot diameter tree ...

A 1,200-acre koa forest in Ka‘u is almost ready to be harvested for the first time in nearly two decades. Since its establishment, however, no trees have been harvested from the 1,257-acre forest ...