Learn 8 steps to a bark canoe in our Forest Alchemist feature from the June issue of Canoe & Kayak magazine. TOM BYERS' DARK, DUSTY CANOE WORKSHOP IS CLUTTERED WITH EVERYTHING EXCEPT POWER TOOLS.

Most of his canoes are wood/canvas, but one is Kevlar and another is covered with Dacron. He also has two birch bark canoes: a 16-foot half-scale model of a 32-foot historic Voyageur-style fur ...

Grant Goltz and Christy Hohman-Caine of Hackensack work alongside Jim Jones, a Leech Lake Band member of Cass Lake, to create a replica of a canoe documented from the 1860s. The group of ...

to the ruggedness of a seagoing cedar canoe, from cleverly assembled birch bark, to the shiny fiberglass, or the comfy inflatable. Early explorers and voyageurs took their cue from the Aboriginal ...