December 2015 Featured Habitat Work

Project: Oneida County Wild Rice Seeding
County: Oneida County

Wild Rice Seeding 2015

In late fall of 2015, WWA again reached into Oneida county area, working in cooperation with US Forest Service and Northland Pines charter school students (pictured, above), to establish more wild rice beds. Project director Peter Ziegler was joined by a class of students on a blustery day this fall, re-seeding wild rice on selected waters in the national forests.

WWA sits on the Wild Rice Advisory Committee of the WI DNR, which advises the department on matters pertaining to regulatory and management practices that affect wild rice in Wisconsin. The committee makes recommendations to the department, which support the conservation of the native wild rice resource for the health of aquatic and wetland ecosystems.