JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) _ Road work on two emergency routes in Stutsman County is being delayed because of bird nests.
Officials want to raise the roadbed of the former Highway 10 in west Stutsman County because the road has been repeatedly flooded.
However, they were notified they had to stop construction because a piping plover may be nesting on the road.
The plover has federal protection because it is a threatened bird species in the upper Great Plains. The plover influences how the Missouri River is managed because it nests on the river's sandbars.
Stutsman County Commissioner David Schwartz says work on another township road is being delayed because of duck nesting.
Schwartz said that the road projects need to be done for the safety of people who live in the area.
