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| | Fish & Wildlife Today: Winter 1999: Bridge to a better river: Minnesota DNR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | On a blustery September 30, 1998, Joseph Auginaush, elder of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, conducted a sacred pipe ceremony to celebrate the restoration of the river. |
 | | Everett Goodwin, a biologist with the White Earth Indian Reservation, says older residents recall that the road crew actually sank and lost a locomotive in the muck while laying underlying logs for the road. |
 | | Those involved in the project include the White Earth Indian Reservation, the Board of Soil and Water Resources, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the Wild Rice Watershed District, Clearwater and Hubbard counties, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and even Bemidji State University. |
| www.dnr.state.mn.us /fwt/back_issues/december99/wild_rice.html (1298 words) |
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