For more than 20 years, Don Prusha gathered the tall, straight maples that blew down on his 10 acres just outside Chardon. He collected them as a boy would Lincoln Logs, trucking them a few at a time ...

Every year, one of the world’s most tensile rope suspension bridges—straddling a 230-foot-wide canyon in Peru—is handwoven from dried grass. In deference to elemental wear-and-tear, the bridge is ...