Protect Your Shoreline With An Itasca Waters Shoreland Advisor

Manoomin (Wild Rice):  The Food That Grows on Water

Wild rice is a valuable food source and culturally significant resource that tribal communities and many other partners work to protect.  The cultural importance, biology, conservation, and harvest of wild rice will be discussed.  Additional information will be shared on education and outreach efforts that further work to preserve this resource for future generations.   

Presented by: Darren Vogt, the resource management division director at the 1854 Treaty Authority, and Marne Kaeske,the Cultural Preservation Specialist for the 1854 Treaty Authority.