A number of conifers are candidates for the Official Evergreen of Winter, but among the leaf-shedding shade trees there is just one superstar, the birch tree with its peeling snow-white bark.

Wiigwaasabak: The Tree of Life Anishinaabe women share how the birch tree, its bark and the traditional crafts that come from this significant tree have transformed their lives.

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 ...

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

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.

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.