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Leanna Goose and her children reseed wild rice on Leech Lake, where she has been studying the impact of invasive species and strategies for recovering wild rice. She is also working on a 2025 campaign ...

Roger Labine uses ricing sticks, or knockers, to harvest wild rice on Lake Tawas. Every year as summer ends, Indigenous Michiganders head out onto lakes and rivers to collect wild rice, a staple food ...

A wild rice bed grows Sept. 12 on the Upper Mississippi River near Goose Island County Park in the town of Shelby, Wis. After disappearing for decades, wild rice is rebounding on parts of the upper ...