Federal foresters are teaming with tribal experts on a plan to seed wild rice in remote lakes deep within the Ottawa National Forest in Michigan’s western Upper Peninsula. Wild rice is considered important to the Great Lakes region’s ecological and cultural heritage, forest officials said. Read the full story by MLive.
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