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Wild Rice and Water Law: Balancing Act Between Industry and Environment
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Posted on Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Infographic: Wild Rice

A Minnesota District Court has ruled in favor of protecting the state’s wild rice.

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Where Food Grows on Water: Environmental and Human Threats to Wisconsin’s Wild Rice
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Posted on Thursday, August 04, 2011
Wild rice on the Bad River Reservation in northern Wisconsin is in the floating leaf stage by early June, with a single shoot lying on the water’s surface. This is considered one of the most critical—and and dangerous—stages in the rice’s life cycle. The plants are just beginning to change physiologically from exchanging gases with the water column to exchanging gases with the air. Therefore, they are very susceptible to heavy rains and flooding events that can either rip out the young plants by the roots, or drown them. June 6, 2011.

For generations, the upper Great Lakes region has boasted harvests of wild rice, growing in Lake Superior and other watersheds within the basin. But disease, dams, and climate change are now endangering the uncultivated bounty.

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