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JAMESTOWN, N.D. — Road work on two emergency routes in central North Dakota is being delayed because of possible bird nesting, a county commissioner says. Officials want to raise the roadbed of the former Highway 10 in western Stutsman County because the road has been repeatedly flooded. Its dirt roadbed is now surrounded by water.

God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." -- Genesis 1:28Thursday night on The ANDREA SHEA KING SHOW -- 9p ET http://www.blogtalkradio.com/askshow/2010/10/01/the-andrea-shea-king-show More than 30,000 people make their home on Cape Hatteras on North Carolina's Outer Banks.  Six million more visit the barrier island each year to fish, swim, and enjoy the area's natural beauty. But for the past couple of years, the beaches of the...

Critical Habitat Designation for Piping Plover WASHINGTON, DC, September 12, 2002 (ENS) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has designated critical habitat for the Northern Great Plains population of piping plover, a threatened shorebird. The designation includes 183,422 acres of habitat and 1,207.5 river miles in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska. Designated areas of critical habitat include prairie alkali wetlands and surrounding shoreline; river channels and associated sandbars and islands; reservoirs and inland lakes and their shorelines, peninsulas and islands. These areas provide primary courtship, nesting, foraging, sheltering, brood rearing and dispersal habitat for...