The Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld a state agency’s decision to deny an iron ore mine and processing plant’s request to ...

Records show wild rice was common around the turn of the 20th century, but poor water quality caused die-offs in the 1980s. Today, it's making a big return on the river.

Groups in Michigan are fighting to preserve the future of Michigan’s indigenous wild rice. The Michigan Wild Rice initiative looks to protect the history of manoomin, a crop indigenous to the Great ...

Wild rice is native to the northern United States and Canada growing naturally in streams and lakes in those regions. True wild rice is expensive, sold in small quantities often in specialty ...

But aside from cooking her famous Ojibwe fried rice, Leah didn’t feel connected to the significance of Manoomin — a sacred plant revered ... by learning to harvest wild rice MPR News senior ...

Other threats Manoomin faces are from using improper boat speeds going through the wetlands, pollutants from mining like sulfate, pollutants from agriculture and invasive species like rice worm and ...

The court sided with the MPCA, which rejected U.S. Steel's request to allow sulfate levels nearly eight times higher than the standard for wild rice waters in Hay Lake.