community known as Tellico Village that opened in March 1987. CCI promoted Tellico Village and the Tellico Reservoir at golf and boat shows across the Midwestern United States. Since the development of Tellico Village, the Tellico area has drawn retirees from the Midwest and from Florida, initiating a retirement-oriented real estate boom. By the late 1990s and into the 2000s, the TVA was pressured by private development groups to release additional acreage that had been seized via eminent domain along the agency's several reservoirs. The intention was for further development, predominantly golf course-based residential resorts. In 1995, a 960-acre community known as Rarity Bay was constructed, with an equestrian center and golf course. Mike Ross, the developer behind Rarity Bay built several resort developments on TVA reservoirs before being charged in federal court with mail fraud and money laundering in 2012. The TVA board approved the sale of preserved land on the eastern shore of Tellico Reservoir for a $750 million golf-course community known as Rarity Pointe in 2002. In 2012, Rarity Pointe was purchased by WindRiver Management LLC, which brought expansion of the site and the renaming of the community from Rarity Pointe to WindRiver. Snail darter post-Tellico The snail darter was removed from the Endangered Species list by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on August 6, 1983. The fish was still classified as a threatened species because the Hiwassee River, where the snail darters from the Little Tennessee had been translocated, had a history of acid spills from freight accidents. By 2021, the snail darter was removed as a threatened species, with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reporting the snail darter population had recovered from any risk of endangerment. Impacts on dam-building and TVA The completion of the Tellico Project marked the end of dam-building by the TVA, as it remains the last dam to be built by the TVA as of 2022. Until the events of the Tellico Project, the value of building a dam was rarely questioned; dams were widely considered to represent progress and technological prowess. Throughout the 20th-century, the United States had built thousands of dams, often to generate hydroelectric power and provide flood control. By the 1950s, most of the best potential dam sites in the United States had been used, and it became increasingly difficult to justify new dams. Government agencies such as TVA, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the