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.

But this Tennessee tourist town, where images, wood carvings and sculptures of black bears are literally everywhere, isn’t the only place that claims to be America’s bear capital. A few years ...

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The elaborately carved case with owls and branches is not by the carvers of the bear furniture, although it is collected as "Black Forest." I own a cash register that belonged to my great-grandfather.

The squat, smiling black bears are Rowley's bread and butter ... the latter has brought him a wider clientele base. Chain saw carving is also very unforgiving, Rowley said, and both mediums ...

There is virtually no end to the objects using Black Forest carving, from tall bear figures to picture frames. Your covered box could sell at auction for more than $1,000. Do you have an antique ...