Marsky's Birch Bark collection is available at Scheuer Linens, 340 Sutter St., San Francisco, (415) 392-2813, Whole Foods Market, 6910 McKinley St., Sebastopol, (707) 829-9801 or by requesting a ...

Sept. 9, 2010 : An earlier version of this article online incorrectly referred to beech trees, not birch, in its headline. The headline appeared correctly in print.

In October 2017, the center recorded a birch bark craft demonstrated by Fu Zhanxiang, a national-level inheritor of intangible cultural heritage.

Thus the harvest of large birch by the dominant society hastened the decline of the craft - one reason there are so few today building bark canoes.) The builders made their incisions to remove the ...

Archaeological studies have found that birch bark culture dates back more than 3,000 years, and is found mostly in China, Russia and Japan, and other countries with an abundance of birch forests.