Rollin’ the Road
Road construction is a major priority for Rodney Ness. As Burleigh County highway superintendent, he’s in charge of maintaining 1,550 miles of roadway, mostly rural, in North Dakota’s second-largest county by population, spanning 1,600 square miles. “It’s about 85% rural prairie up here,” he estimates. “Our focus is road maintenance and construction. We do a lot of gravel road maintenance.”