LEECH LAKE RESERVATION, MINN. – Canoes and poles are being prepped. Folks sit in their driveways, whittling sticks. It can only mean one thing: Wild rice season has returned to northern ...

Wild rice is a fickle aquatic grass that can be washed out by rising water levels, a growing trend in Minnesota, according to 128 years of state precipitation data.

Ryan White, front, and Darold Madigan harvest wild rice on Leech Lake in Minnesota, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. ... But changing climate, invasive species and pollution are threatening the plant.

Minnesota adds 20 wild rice lakes and streams to impaired list A group opposed to mining near the Boundary Waters hopes that adding Birch Lake will make permitting a copper-nickel mine more difficult.

Wild rice is a fickle aquatic grass that can be washed out by rising water levels, a growing trend in Minnesota, according to 128 years of state precipitation data. The grass seed, or grain, has been ...

As the Aug. 15 wild rice season opening date approaches, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reminds harvesters that rice stands must be ripe before they can be legally harvested.

As the Aug. 15 wild rice season opening date approaches, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reminds harvesters that rice stands must be ripe before they can be legally harvested. Aug 10 ...

A fresh pot of hand-harvested and processed wild rice is shared by students and faculty of Leech Lake Tribal College as a part of a traditional Ojibwe ceremony, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022, in Cass ...

The sun rises over a wild rice bed in Steamboat Bay on Leech Lake in Minnesota, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Wild rice, or manoomin (good seed) in Ojibwe, is sacred to Indigenous peoples in the Great ...

ON LEECH LAKE, Minnesota (AP) — Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so ...

ON LEECH LAKE, Minnesota (AP) - Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so ...

ON LEECH LAKE, Minnesota (AP) — Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so ...