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Both developments came amid worsening extreme drought in North Dakota.
The Roosevelt Creek Fire encompassed about 900 acres, or about 1 ½ square miles, in Billings County, with zero containment by late afternoon, according to Misty Hayes, district ranger for the Medora Ranger District of the Little Missouri National Grassland. The fire started on Wednesday about 6 miles north of Wannagan Campground, north of the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. It was burning in rugged Badlands terrain. The cause wasn t known. No ranches threatened right now; some oil wells in the area but no immediate threat, Hayes said.
Larger fires this spring include ones that burned about 3 ½ square miles in the Medora area and an 8-square-mile blaze in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
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By TRAVIS SVIHOVEC and BLAKE NICHOLSON - Associated Press - Monday, April 26, 2021
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Leaders of a Bismarck church last Sunday morning took the first steps in organizing a communitywide prayer effort aimed at ending the state’s drought, which continues to worsen.
The timing of that message may have helped their cause.
“It was very powerful as we first told folks here at McCabe that, it was raining outside,” said Karl Kroger, lead pastor at McCabe United Methodist Church.
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