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...Minnesota counties. Those counties include Crow Wing, Aitkin, Cass, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Todd and Wadena.Mark Mortensen, program forester at the Brainerd DNR office, said his office has recorded 2.7 inches of rain since Friday.Restrictions...
...Brainerd. The grass fire made its way to a small abandoned garage and it caught fire. The garage was a total loss. Mark Mortensen, DNR program forester, said there were a few grass fires in the lakes area that included a fire that jumped the...
...Natural Resources (DNR) battled four fires in the Brainerd lakes area, including a 120-acre fire west of Jenkins.Mark Mortensen, DNR program forester, said all the grass fires occurred around the same time, with the Cass County Sheriff's...
...inches reported compared to the average of 6.82 inches, Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Program Forester Mark Mortensen reported Tuesday.From 1981 to 2000, the highest total for March snowfall in Brainerd was 24 inches, according...
...melted snow in the Brainerd lakes area, which means Minnesota is going into its next season - wildfires and floods.Mark Mortensen, Department of Natural Resources (DNR) program forester, said the wildfire season had already begun, as the DNR...
...4:30 p.m. Wednesday, there was .47 of an inch of rainfall recorded at the Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport.Mark Mortensen, Department of Natural Resources program forester, said the dry conditions have continued to keep the fire danger...
...than a half-inch of rain in September, continuing the dry conditions that have persisted for a number of weeks.Mark Mortensen, DNR program forester, also said the dry weather continues a pattern that was seen in the fall of 2011 with a wet...
...DNR) weather gauge at the Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport had 1.33 inches of rain from the overnight storm. Mark Mortensen, DNR forester, said the gauge at the DNR offices had .65 inches overnight. Mortensen said the downpour was so...
...caused widespread flooding concerns, were well above average. But the last two months went the other direction. Mark Mortensen, Department of Natural Resources program forester, said the last two months were about 50 percent of the average...
More than 100 acres of the Pillsbury State Forest burned in a forest fire that began late Friday night.Mark Mortensen, program forester for the DNR, said 110 acres burned in the southeast corner of the forest located in Cass County. According...