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Bird nests delay work on county emergency routes
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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 says that the road

projects need to be done for the safety of people who live in the

area.