Endless beds of wild rice, endless waves of ducks Flocks of waterfowl soar over Rice Lake in Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. Almost 200,000 birds were counted on Rice ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Environmental groups are upset over a provision in Minnesota's new budget that will delay enforcement of a water quality standard meant to protect the state's wild rice beds ...

Wild rice thrives in water depths of one-to-three feet, though low water can make actually harvesting the grains a challenge.

Wild rice grows in yearslong “boom-bust” cycles, and state regulators require as much as a decade of data to determine how well a polluted rice bed may be doing.

A flock of geese flew over promising wild rice beds off the shores of Anderson's Cove Resort on Leech Lake in ... someone caught harvesting rice that isn’t ready may get 90 days in jail and a $ ...

A wild rice bed grows Sept. 12 on the Upper Mississippi River near Goose Island County Park in the town of Shelby, ... Such an improvement may be making it easier for wild rice to establish, ...

Proponents said there may even be value in establishing legal harvest seasons and a licensing process, like other Great Lakes states which maintain monitored wild rice beds. “We are going to be ...

Results of two years of field and laboratory work on how sulfate affects wild rice were released Tuesday, but any decision on the state's wild rice standard and its effect on the mining industry ...

Three years of ground-breaking research shows that Minnesota’s controversial standard to protect wild rice waters from sulfate pollution is close to the mark. Industry groups have challenged the ...

RICE LAKE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Minn. — Duane King goosed the motor, the propeller kicked to life, and the big airboat took off across the seemingly endless sea of wild rice.

Endless beds of wild rice, endless waves of ducks Flocks of waterfowl soar over Rice Lake in Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. Almost 200,000 birds were counted on Rice ...