Dan Kraker
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Dan Kraker is a reporter for Minnesota Public Radio.
Latest Stories (17)
Spruce top thieves illegally cutting a northwoods cash crop
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Dan Kraker
Dec 23, 2020
So far this season conservation officers have seized well over 15,000 spruce tops illegally harvested in Minnesota.
Minnesota grapples with returning "snowbirds"
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Dan Kraker
May 25, 2020
More than 44,000 people leave in the winter and return in the summer, boosting local economies but raising COVID-19 fears.
Indie booksellers innovate to survive the age of Amazon
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Dan Kraker
Jan 7, 2020
The holiday season is the busiest time of year for many retailers, including the country's 2,500 hundred independent bookstores. Some, despite Amazon's dominance, are flourishing.
Recreational trails are seen as an economic boon
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Dan Kraker
Jan 3, 2020
Cities around the country have long had to worry about roads. Now, with the help of volunteers, they’re also investing more heavily in trails.
Rising Great Lakes water levels benefit some, but cost others
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Dan Kraker
Aug 15, 2019
The shipping industry is profiting from rising water levels in the Great Lakes, but homeowners and city parks are struggling.
The market for clean wood-burning furnaces might heat up
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Dan Kraker
Apr 29, 2019
New environmental rules could transform stove makers' business.
Passing on a tradition of wild rice harvest in northern Minnesota
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Dan Kraker
Oct 18, 2017
Native Americans migrated to Minnesota centuries ago “where food grew on the water,” 500 years later, the wild rice harvest tradition is still being passed on.