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Published April 15, 2010, 12:00 AM

Photo Gallery - Controlled Burn


Jerome "Jerry" Rodewald watches as the Fire Department conducts a controlled burn of 12 acres on his town of River Falls property.

  • Jerome "Jerry" Rodewald watches as the Fire Department conducts a controlled burn of 12 acres on his town of River Falls property.
  • Using a drip torch, firefighter Craig Gienau helped start the controlled burn on the Rodewald property.
  • One of the Fire Department's trucks is named Wild Fire.
  • The controlled-burn experts say the land won't stay blackened for long before it begins to regenerate with good, native prairie grasses.
  • Marcella and Jerry Rodewald.
  • The DNR, Kinnickinnic River Land Trust and volunteers from UW-River Falls conducted a controlled burn April 10 at the KRLT-owned Kelly Creek Preserve in the town of Kinnickinnic.