It would be a rare sight to spot an airboat equipped with a machine harvesting wild rice on northern Minnesota water. That’s because such a harvesting method is prohibited by tribal and state law. But ...

Giiwewag. They are coming home. Manoominikwewag, or harvesting wild rice, is a deep connection back to water and land. Wild rice represents the foundation of a sustainable economy. The Anishinaabe ...

CHISHOLM — Long on the books but not enforced, Minnesota regulators are beginning to implement the state’s limit on sulfate released into wild rice waters, reigniting a contentious environmental ...

Natalie Yarbrough of Minnetonka, has won the Grand Prize in the Minnesota Cultivated Wild Rice Council’s “Get Wild with Wild Rice” recipe contest with her Wild Banana Blueberry Pecan Pancakes, the ...

No, environmentalists, tribal leaders, and others in Minnesota “are not trying to shut down the mining industry,” as Nancy Schuldt of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s Resource ...

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said it will evaluate recent peer-reviewed scientific studies to validate the impacts of sulfates on wild rice while also working with third-party experts to ...

GPM is a Duluth-based manufacturer serving mining and industrial customers across the country. For more than 30 years, we at GPM have seen how environmental regulations shape regional economies — ...