Clearwater Lake MN East of Clearbrook

One of the most attractive lakes in North West Minnesota is Clearwater Lake and true to its name the water is realitively clear for this area. There is very little published information on this lake and I could find very little information online about it. I would need to go to the county seat of Clearwater County, which is Bagley, Minnesota and do the paper and pen type of reasearch there. What I have found online is that the Clearwater lake as we know it is the result of gravity dam on the Clearwater River. It is owned by the state of Minnesota and has been there since 1931. The length is sixty feet and County Highway 4 uses the dam to cross the river. What is really nice is there are a number of islands on the west side of the lake and a few of the islands have homes and cabins on them.

DNR's Web site is Closed but Gov. Dayton's is up

Without really thinking about the government shutdown I logged on to the computer after coffee and wanted to find the access to a lake I had never fished on. Well that was a dead end because the MN DNR shut down their site "MN Lake Finder" because of the budget impasse. I tried other DNR sites, all of which are shut down. Then, I thought to myself "I bet the governors web site is up and running". I was right on the money. It is up and running and there is a place to contact him with your thoughts.

Now I just wanted lake access information, no big deal, but other people have had to cancel plans because the parks are closed. Some have had made reservations a year or more in advance and payed for them, but yet the governor's site is up.

There are two questions. Number one question if a revenue generating site like the DNR's is compelled to shut down, then why is the governor's still up and running? Number two, is this being done for political reasons?
Blame who you want, any politician who has a Minnesota government fund site up and running should have it shut down and that includes the Governor Dayton.