Funny thing about these infamous birch containers. When I posed this question at BCUK I almost immediatly received a flood of responses suggesting that I whip up a birch bark container as if these guys had done it hundreds of times and it was as quick and easy as tieing your shoe. However, when I inquired as to how this is done the room became very silent. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> A bunch of armchair QB responses? LOL...probably so. If anyone has info on how this is done I would love to see it as it seems it would be a useful skill. Google search showed me what some very fancy ones look like but nothing about the construction of a simpler version that would be more quickly made. I'm also not sure that there is any birch near my part of the world. My feild guide says there is but I have yet to see it. I run across mostly Cedars, Mequite, Oaks, Pines, Willows and Cottonwood.