-
You might be hard pressed to find some wild rice this fall.“It may be one of the very worst years I’ve seen in 35 years,” said Peter David, wildlife…
-
Peter David loves everything about wild rice from its ecological value to how it tastes.“I think it’s interesting in so many different ways,” said…
-
Pete McGeshick II looked out upon Spur Lake and thought about what used to be.“The lake was full,” he said. “The rice bed was full all the way…
-
By the middle of the century, the climate, the waters, and the species of northern Wisconsin could look like today’s southern Wisconsin.That’s according…
-
Pete McGeshick III sometimes has a hard time explaining what being on a wild rice bed feels like for him.As he used a 16-foot pole to push a canoe across…
-
It's ricing season on Northwoods lakes, but the crop again this year isn't as productive as past years, especially in this region.DNR wetland habitat…
-
A UW-Madison graduate student is researching the relationship between the upper Midwest rice beds and increased sulfate in the surface water.Wild rice, or…
-
It depends where the lakes are located, but wild rice is either good or having another bad year.A biologist says Oneida, Price and Vilas counties are not…
-
People heading out on Northwoods lakes and streams are likely not finding wild rice in abundance this season.DNR wetland habitat specialist Jason Fleener…
-
Wild rice abundance reports show that harvesting season is approaching. Labor Day often marks the harvesting season of the traditional Ojibwe food staple.…