[PCA] NEWS: In Minn., copper mining runs afoul of wild rice
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Fri Apr 15 08:49:04 CDT 2011
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_food_and_farm_wild_rice
In Minn., copper mining runs afoul of wild rice
By STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press -- Fri Apr 15, 5:25 am ET
MINNEAPOLIS -- Wild rice is sacred to the Ojibwe of Minnesota, but that
may not be enough to protect it from the promise of jobs that a new
copper-nickel mining industry would bring to the state.
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