A handful of wild rice is ready ... of Natural Resources. The rice is not only good for human consumption, but provides fish habitat and is a food source for waterfowl, too.

So, the tribe decided to help it along by transplanting wild rice seed from Ojibwe reservations ... including one from the ...

A handful of wild rice seed. Wild rice is important in the Great Lakes region ... According to Gerrish, lakes with sparse stands almost always had an increase in waterfowl, usually swans, that would ...