...Ducks Unlimited for the purpose of improving wild rice habitat. Rod Ustipak, a Brainerd resident who is the wild rice enhancement coordinator for Ducks Unlimited, was hired to manage 12 contract trappers who will remove beaver dams in Crow Wing...

...and our goals for the future," Drotts said. The second presentation by Rod Ustipak, Ducks Unlimited's wild rice enhancement coordinator, was on the joint DU/DNR effort to manage and enhance shallow lakes for waterfowl habitat and wild rice...