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While trees and lakes are covered by two different branches of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Bill Schuster, a former NR Technician stationed at the agency’s offices in Side Lake, knows a thing or two about the up and down nature of water levels on the Sturgeon chain of lakes in French Township. “On the wall there, because people always used to come in and complain about the water levels, I had a sign (with a quote from Mark Twain): Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over,” said Schuster, who is currently the chair of the township’s board of supervisors. “That has been the deal in Side Lake for the 40 years that I’ve been there.”

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