For nearly 40 years, 72-year-old Stephen Miller’s career has brought him close to the trees. Since cofounding the nonprofit Islesboro Islands Trust in 1985, he’s been the org’s executive director, ...

Learn how to make walking sticks for a hobby by training a maple, crepe myrtle, or poplar tree into a spiral around a PVC support stake. Blaze new trails by making a walking stick from green wood that ...

DETROIT LAKES — When Bob Kotaska travels to other states, he often finds a piece of wood suitable for a walking stick. The Detroit Lakes man, a longtime member of the Lake Country Woodcarvers, carved ...

Hiking with some kind of walking stick makes outdoor adventures more fun and safer, and this is the ideal time of the year to whittle your own walking stick from a sapling. The work is easy, it’s ...