MARINETTE, Wis. (WLUK) -- A restoration project to plant wild rice in the waters of Green Bay is underway. As crews took to their boats Monday morning, near Red Arrow Park in Marinette, the high lake ...

SUAMICO (WLUK) -- A restoration project is underway in the waters of Green Bay to help a native plant grow. Crews are planting wild rice up and down the western shoreline. Inside big white bags sits ...

SUAMICO - As Cindy Reffke looks out across the Barkhausen Waterfowl Preserve, she imagines the wild rice plants that have disappeared, but are now desperately needed to restore the environment and ...

Michigan's Indigenous communities harvest wild rice, or manoomin, every year as part of their cultural heritage and ...

SHELBY, Wisconsin — If she closes her eyes, Danelle Larson can still remember how the stretch of Mississippi River in front of her looked as recent as a decade ago: nothing but open, muddy water.

After a late start, California rice planting is finally ramping up in the Sacramento Valley. Late spring rains kept fields wet and farmers from working their ground, shortening this year’s planting ...

LA CROSSE (AP) | An advocacy group hopes to boost the wild rice growing in the La Crosse River marsh. Its goal is to improve habitat for migrating waterfowl and other wildlife that live above and ...

ALL. WE ALL KNOW WILD RICE, RIGHT? WELL, IF ALL YOU’VE EVER TASTED IS THAT STUFF THAT COMES OUT OF A BOX WITH THE LITTLE SPICE PACK, YOU MIGHT BE IN FOR A SURPRISE. CHEF MARK SHEEHAN WAS. I WOULD SAY ...

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 ...

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