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Decades After It Disappeared, Wild Rice Is Booming Again on the Upper Mississippi River
The greatest changes have occurred in places where rice has moved into deeper waters, Carhart said. Previously, wild rice was ...
Environmental group calls for tighter water permit for coal plant that spilled next to rice beds
Minnesota Power’s Boswell Energy Center is allowed to pump sulfate-tainted wastewater into the Mississippi River. The state ...
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Wild rice dwindled in parts of the Upper Midwest. Now efforts are underway to bring it back
Wild rice grows in shallow waterways in the Great Lakes region and parts of Canada. It’s a plant that holds important ...
La Crosse Tribune3d
Decades after it disappeared, wild rice is booming again on upper Mississippi River
If she closes her eyes, Danelle Larson can still remember how the stretch of Mississippi River in front of her looked as ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel11d
Decades after it disappeared, wild rice is booming again on the upper Mississippi River
Today, it's covered with impressively tall and thick beds of wild rice. Larson, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, and Alicia Carhart, Mississippi River vegetation specialist ...