Ryan White, front, and Darold Madigan harvest wild rice on Leech Lake in Minnesota earlier this month. White, who has been ricing for three decades, says the beds are “continually shrinking,” which endangers the wild rice’s spiritual and economic gifts. _AP PHOTO/JESSIE WARDARSKI
By Giovanna Dell’Orto Associated Press O N LEECH LAKE, Minnesota (AP) — Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast…
