Gail Karen Dufelmeier Stremel was born in Jamestown, North Dakota on March 16, 1942. She grew up in small towns in North and South Dakota. She graduated from Chamberlain, South Dakota High School in 1960. A national merit scholarship brought her to Macalester College from where she graduated in 1964. She later earned a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Hamline University. Upon graduation from “Mac”, Gail started a career in social work at the then Ramsey County Welfare Department. Over the next several years her career took her into management. When she retired in 2003, she was the Director of the Income Maintenance Division of the Human Services Department of Ramsey County. While at Macalester, Gail made life long friends and particularly among the women who lived on “Wally South”. Those friendships led among other things to many trips across the US and elsewhere. She also shared a number of trips, with women friends, to both the BWCA and the Quetico. She relishe
Zebra mussels have invaded more Minnesota lakes
Zebra mussels are small mollusks, with a striped brown-and-tan, D-shaped shell. They usually cling to hard surfaces underwater, such as docks, trash, rocks or other shellfish.
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Kirsti Marohn / MPR News | 11:25 am, Jul. 26, 2021 ×
Zebra mussels are an aquatic invasive species that can cause problems on lakes by attaching to boat motors and boat hulls, docks, lifts, rocks and swimming areas. They can also clog irrigation intakes and other pipes. (Contributed)
BRAINERD, Minn. People swimming in Minnesota lakes recently have made some unwelcome discoveries: new infestations of invasive zebra mussels.
The state Department of Natural Resources confirmed last week that the invasive shellfish are in Locke Lake in Wright County; Clitherall Lake in Otter Tail County; Eagle and Turtle lakes in Becker County; Cedar Lake in Aitkin County; and the St. James Mine Pit in St. Louis County.