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It was nothing but open, muddy water. Now it’s covered with impressively tall and thick beds of wild rice. Larson is a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Alicia Carhart is a ...

In the past several years, wild rice has exploded on this part of the upper river in Wisconsin. (Madeline Heim/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) In the past several years, wild rice has exploded on this ...

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A 1939 photo of wild rice on Blue Lake in La Crescent, Minn., on the Mississippi River. Credit: Upper Mississippi River National Fish and Wildlife Refuge The place now known as Wisconsin has a ...

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, vegetation specialist for the Wisconsin ...

The place now known as Wisconsin has a rich history of wild rice harvesting dating back thousands of years with the Menominee, the original people of the area who were named "People of the Wild Rice." ...

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.

It's just some of the more than 400 pounds of wild rice seeds he and a small group of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources staff and volunteers are reseeding in this northern Wisconsin lake.