Wooden bears, birds and mythical creatures came to life in Frederick this weekend at the town’s annual carving competition.

At first glance, the chain saw carvings of bears, cowboys and other Western images outside the Lost Woodsman gallery on Highway 200 are a diverting roadside attraction, and nothing more.

Bear carving in Athens is wood sculptor's largest project. Chris Starrs Correspondent. For the past couple of weeks, drivers and pedestrians on the 500 block of Oglethorpe Avenue could bear ...

Morgan hired a wood carver to sculpt a 10-foot-tall bear out of an oak- tree stump in his yard off West 54th Street. The work was done by Bud Emerson of Creative Chainsaw Carvings in Wellington.

His smallest carving, which he usually gives away during demonstrations, has been a 1½-inch bear he can turn out in less than a minute. His largest to date is a 26-foot northwestern totem pole ...

ST. GEORGE – Hundreds of hungry restaurant-goers stood outside the Black Bear Diner on Monday watching as the company’s chainsaw bear sculptor, Ray Schulz, carved two 5-foot tall wooden bears.

THURMONT, Md. (AP) -- Joe Stebbing started out carving wood the old-fashioned way. With chisels and a mallet. Trouble was, it took about three months to make a single carving. Stebbing, a plumber ...