Wild Rice Transplantation III

Many of the Federal and State owned wetlands in Minnesota get used every year by game and non-game wildlife species for nesting, staging, or inhabiting year around. The proposed project sites do not currently have wild rice available as a food source. Native Minnesota wild rice would be a beneficial food source at these sites. The Pioneer Heritage Conservation Trust will purchase Minnesota wild rice from within 100 miles of the project sites immediately after it is harvested in the fall. Then the rice will be transplanted to wetlands in the project sites.