Dan Kraker
Reporter at Minnesota Public Radio (St. Paul, MN)
Contributor at Sahan Journal
Contributor at Marketplace
Duluth Correspondent for @MPRNews. I cover the economy and the environment of Northeastern Minnesota. Retweets not endorsements.
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1 week ago |
mprnews.org | Dan Kraker
Faith leaders in Duluth are rallying to try to save a program that provides a secure place for people experiencing homelessness to sleep in their vehicles, after a group of residents filed an appeal challenging the city’s approval of a permit to allow the program to relocate to a church parking lot.
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2 weeks ago |
mprnews.org | Dan Kraker
At first glance, they look like typical summer tourism advertisements meant to lure travelers. But the six billboards that popped up in Duluth earlier this month that read “Greetings from Voyageurs National Park” instead blast the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, for budget cuts it made to the National Park Service earlier this year.
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2 weeks ago |
mprnews.org | Dan Kraker
After a nearly two-week long battle, firefighting crews are now making rapid progress containing two wildfires still burning in northern Minnesota. The Camp House Fire, which destroyed about 150 structures including dozens of homes and cabins near Brimson, is now 90 percent contained. Firefighters are working inside the fire's burned interior to put out smoldering stumps and other hot spots.
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2 weeks ago |
mesabitribune.com | Dan Kraker
The wildfires that have scorched 45 square miles of forest in northern Minnesota were driven by unusually hot, dry weather and fierce winds. But a native insect called the spruce budworm also played a key role in creating a forest primed with flammable fuel to feed a raging wildfire. The budworm is a caterpillar that devours the buds and needles on balsam fir and white spruce. But despite its name, it really loves balsam, which grows in thickets underneath taller pine trees.
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2 weeks ago |
mankatofreepress.com | Dan Kraker
Despite ferocious winds that gusted across northeast Minnesota, the control lines established by firefighters around two major wildfires burning in rough terrain north of Duluth held on Tuesday and containment has grown on both blazes. The Camp House Fire, which has burned about 12,000 acres near Brimson, is now 73 percent contained. The larger Jenkins Creek Fire is 13 percent contained. That fire has now consumed about 16,700 acres of forest.
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