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OUR GEM: What’s not so obvious?

by DAVID MUISE / Kootenai Environmental Alliance
| February 9, 2025 1:00 AM

I was standing by Lake Coeur d’Alene on a fall day, taking in the beautiful view, when a woman passing by asked me, “Has the lake turned over yet?” 

I gave her a vacant look, smiled and said “no,” having no idea what I was saying “no” to. “Turn over” was what you did to pancakes, and no spatula I’ve ever seen could turn over a lake! 

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