With steel tools available 150 years ago, it takes a month to gather materials and build a birch bark canoe. Materials: Bark from white paper birch, clear cedar for ribs, split spruce root for ...

Condensation methods, which involve burning birch bark on cobblestones so the tar can condense on the stones, were the simplest techniques used—allowing bark to burn above ground doesn’t ...

As George Dvorsky at Gizmodo reports, archaeologists have found lumps of adhesive tar likely made from birch bark at Neanderthal sites in Italy and Germany. But just how they made the substance ...

The scent of spruce pitch sizzling over the fire in a tin pail fills the evening air as I gum the seams of a birch bark canoe for its maiden journey on Lake of the Woods. Having taken every ...

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 ...

led Angelique Merasty Levac to a life she never expected, as one of the most celebrated birch bark biters in the world. In the pages of that magazine, she found someone with her same name ...

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 ...

SALEKHARD, RUSSIA—Scientists continue to study the well-preserved remains of a six- or seven-year-old boy whose medieval birch bark coffin was recovered from the Zeleny Yar necropolis.