Restoring Wild Rice In Wisconsin Lakes Takes Flight

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Indigenous wild rice has been disappearing from Wisconsin lakes for decades.Now, two Native American Middle school students in Madison have lauched a project to help restore it. They’reheading to an International water conference in Mexico this week to share their research with students from 70 countries.As Gil Halsted reports, the girls got a tradtional Ojibway send off…

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