BUILDING ROADS ON the Olympic Peninsula has always been a challenge. In the days before roads, people traveled along beaches at low tide when the surf was low enough to not pound you into the ...

Many of the U.S. Forest Service workers fired by the Trump administration serve critical functions in the constant job that ...

The “mortise” is the recess where the tenon goes. It can be cut by hand with a mallet and mortising chisel, or mechanically ...

Carve up logs that have fallen across hiking trails — often with hand saws ... Alex Mason knows her way around a saw. She’s certified to use a crosscut saw for bucking, or cutting up downed ...

Trail work, though underappreciated, made for a life well-lived in the woods.