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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An estimated 670 million people are projected to be undernourished in 2030, as noted in FAO's The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 report. Conflict, COVID-19, climate extremes ...

TOWN OF SHELBY - 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. Today, ...

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Tall, resilient and expanding Wild rice is an annual plant, meaning it completes its entire life cycle in one growing season and then dies. The seeds germinate in spring, then sprout to lie flat on ...