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 ...

Wild rice grows in shallow waterways in the Great Lakes region and parts of Canada. It’s a plant that holds important ecological and cultural significance, but it’s been on the decline since the early ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 leaf ...