TOWN OF SHELBY - If she closes her eyes, Danelle Larson can still remember how the stretch of Mississippi River in front of ...

DULUTH — The good news for the wild rice in Kingsbury Bay along the St. Louis River estuary is that the sediment is now clean enough, and the water is now deep enough, and the invasive curly ...

“But you would also think they wouldn’t then discharge that directly to the Mississippi River.” The MPCA says Boswell’s new permit will protect wild rice in Blackwater Lake, the section of ...

The collective unfamiliarity with Texas wild rice does, however, draw attention to its precarious existence. In a river brimming with other aquatic vegetation, the rice plants are easy to overlook.

Today, it's covered with impressively tall and thick beds of wild rice. Larson, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, and Alicia Carhart, Mississippi River vegetation specialist ...

“It’s everywhere.” In the past several years, wild rice has exploded on this part of the upper river, particularly on a section of it called Pool 4, near Alma, and Pool 8, near La Cross ...

Today, it's covered with impressively tall and thick beds of wild rice. Larson, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, and Alicia Carhart, Mississippi River vegetation specialist ...