| Collaboration
Leads to Conservation
 To
demonstrate how power production and wildlife conservation can work
together, TVA signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Raccoon
Mountain Nature Preserve in September 2000. The agreement creates a
public-private partnership aimed at protecting approximately 5,000 hectares
(12,000 acres) of land around Raccoon Mountain along the Tennessee River
northwest of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
It’s an area
that is home to many animal species, including bald eagles, wild turkeys,
and deer. TVA also operates an innovative underground pumped-storage
power plant on Raccoon Mountain that produces 1.6 million kilowatt-hours
of peak-load generating capacity each year.
“TVA’s
great support in joining with other property owners in the creation
of the Raccoon Mountain Nature Preserve has already resulted in making
this a more friendly environmental area,” says Robert Caldwell,
its Director. The habitat-improvement work currently under way at Raccoon
Mountain includes landscaping with native plants, installing bluebird
and bat houses, erecting eagle perches, and providing salt licks for
deer.
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