Richard and Carrie (left) Mark and John Aspinwall pole their canoes through the wild rice beds off of Green’s Point in the Mississippi River Wednesday. Three generations of the Aspinwall family have been coming to Green’s Point near Brainerd to gather wild rice. Brainerd Dispatch/Steve Kohls.
1/2: Jeff Knapp bags the wild rice in his canoe after gathering rice near Green’s Point on the Mississippi River Wednesday. Brainerd Dispatch/Steve Kohls
2/2: Dick Wilken rices while Jeff Knapp poles the canoe through the wild rice off of Green’s Point on the Mississippi River Wednesday. Brainerd Dispatch/Steve Kohls