“Wild rice has a very narrow window of environmental conditions in which it can really be successful,” Byrne said. “Not only is it vulnerable to weather or climatic variables, it’s also vulnerable to motorboat use. Its ecology is very delicate.”
https://www.wpr.org/news/vulnerable-plant-study-climate-change-blame-less-wild-rice
#manoomin
To aid in restoration across the state, the Michigan Wild Rice Initiative, comprising tribes indigenous to the Great Lakes region, state officials, and academic experts, created a stewardship plan.#Indigenouscommunities #manoomin #wildrice
Groups fight to preserve future of Michigan’s indigenous wild rice | Great Lakes Now
Groups fight to preserve future of Michigan’s indigenous wild rice | Great Lakes Now
Climate Change Threatens the Future of Wild Rice
https://eos.org/articles/climate-change-threatens-the-future-of-wild-rice #ClimateChange #WildRice #Michigan #Wisconsin #Minnesota #Manoomin #Psiη #Ojibwe #Chippewa #tribalpartners
> we are Native Tribal Nations, local landowners, family farmers, small business owners, elected officials, clergy, elders and children, mothers and fathers.. mobilizing to protect the water here. Our 50-year history is of turning down extractive projects, sulfide acid mining.. all kinds of projects that might have impacted our pristine water systems, the #Ojibwe Nation's "#Manoomin" and all that leads into beloved #LakeSuperior .
#UnitedByWater #HonorEarth #GreatLakesBasin #Watersheds
Brilliant essay by Peter Linebaugh, via Dave Roediger. What if we told our history of struggle in a way that integrated and centered Indigenous people and ecology?
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