AIS Webinar Series: Starry Stonewort and Manoomin: Case Studies on Relationship and Management

Raining White has been employed with Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe since the 2018 Field Season in the Plants Department at the Division of Resource Management. With an interest and focus on invasive species management, he has spent most of his career using and developing non-chemical control methods for terrestrial and aquatic invasive species. Starry stonewort has centered itself in his work with its potential to spread easily and impact manoomin beds. Raining is a Leech Lake Band member, avid defender and user of natural resources and a lifelong lover of freshwater ecosystems. 

Steve Smith is enrolled in the White Earth Band of Ojibwe and has lived on the Leech Lake reservation his entire life. Steve has worked with the MCT lab doing environmental work on tribal lands and more recently was a faculty member at the Leech Lake Tribal college teaching courses in biology and chemistry. From an early age he has been engaged in hunting, fishing and gathering activities on the reservation. Steve’s current PhD research work focuses on aquatic invasive species impacts on natural stands of wild rice.

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