11-09-2005, 10:31 PM
BRAINERD, MN[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size 2]—[/size][/font]The alertness of a teenage boy on Rice Lake in Brainerd, Minnesota, has led Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) biologists to the state's latest discovery of zebra mussels.
While cleaning a bait bucket suspended from his family's dock, Gil Millette says he noticed a small zebra mussel attached to the outside of the bucket. His father brought the mussel into the Brainerd DNR office, and a subsequent search found more zebra mussels near the Millette's property on Rice Lake, which is an impoundment of the Mississippi River.
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While cleaning a bait bucket suspended from his family's dock, Gil Millette says he noticed a small zebra mussel attached to the outside of the bucket. His father brought the mussel into the Brainerd DNR office, and a subsequent search found more zebra mussels near the Millette's property on Rice Lake, which is an impoundment of the Mississippi River.
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