Mary Mueller of Winthrop, Owner of Muellers Habitat Restoration, a prairie restoration business that plans and seeds prairie and wetland restorations.  Ms. Mueller has degrees in ecology and agricultural research from Mankato State University and the University of Minnesota - Waseca. She is the Habitat Coordinator for McLeod County Pheasants Forever and vice president of the Wildlife Habitat Conservation Society.  She operates a farm in Winthrop with portions of the land enrolled in RIM, CRP and CREP conservation program efforts.  Mueller will serve a term which ends January 4, 2010. Appointed by the Governor.