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Tellico Dam opponents had successfully sued under the provisions of that law to stop the dam. The Supreme Court had stated that as written, it was clear that Congress intended to protect all species, including the snail darter. In 1978 Congress amended the law, with the case of the snail darter specifically in mind.
The snail darter was a federally protected species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 between 1975 and 2022 as a result of habitat destruction from the completion of the Tellico Dam. Another factor in the decline of snail darters is siltation, which degrades spawning habitat and food availability.
The snail darter fish, endangered at the time of the Tellico project's construction, was the subject of calls to halt work on the dam, and a Supreme Court decision regarding the Endangered Species Act.
The snail darter is quite literally the legal textbook case for the Endangered Species Act in the lawsuit Tennessee Valley Authority vs. Hill.
The unusual circumstances that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the Endangered Species Act in 1978 have not surfaced much since then. Citing the potential threat posed by the ...
The Tellico Dam project was reviewed by the so-called "God Committee" on January 23, 1979 and was unanimously denied an exemption based on economic factors. [14] Chairman Andrus stated, "I hate to see the snail darter get the credit for stopping a project that was ill-conceived and uneconomic in the first place."
The snail darter was listed as an endangered species in 1975 and part of the Little Tennessee River was designated as critical habitat. [2] The completion of the Tellico Dam threatened the survival of the snail darter, which was thought to be native only to the Little Tennessee River.
The proposed project to build the dam and reservoir was the subject of environmental controversy during the 1970s because of the discovery of the snail darter, an endangered species. [8] It was the first major legal challenge to the Endangered Species Act. [citation needed]