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found that the defendants had failed to ensure that their actions would not adversely affect the crane's habitat and granted an injunc- tion preventing further construction. The highway was completed after the defendants made changes suggested by the Fish and Wildlife Service. 3. Indiana bat. In Sierra Club v. Froehlke,* an injunction was sought to prevent construction of the Miramec Park Lake Dam in Missouri, which would flood the caves inhabited by the Indiana bat. The Appeals Court refused to grant the injunction arguing that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that the existence of the Indiana bat would be jeopardized.** 4. Snail darter. Plaintiffs sought an injunction against the completion of TVA's Tellico Dam in Tennessee on the grounds that it would cause the extinction of the snail darter by flooding its only known habitat in the Little Tennessee River, the only place where the snail darter was known to exist. This case went to the Supreme Court, which ruled in Hill v. TVA,*** that the protection afforded endangered species by Section 7 was not affected by the fact that Congress had subsequently appropriated the funds for the completion of the project. The furor that arose after the injunction was granted influenced the 1978 Amendments to the Endangered Species Act, which specified that the Tellico project be reviewed by a cabinet-level panel for possible exemption. This panel found that the estimated benefits from the completion of the dam did not justify the cost of finishing it and failed to grant an exemption (see Sec. C). 5. Furbish lousewort. This variety of snapdragon was discovered by the US Corps of Engineers during the preparation of the draft EIS for the Dickey-Lincoln project, a planned hydroelectric project on the St. *392 F. Supp. 130 (E.D. Mo. 1975), 534 F. 2d 1303 (8th Cir., 1976). **The Supreme Court, in its decision in Hill v. TVA, expressly disallowed the kind of balancing approach employed by the Eighth Circuit in- this case. See Stromberg (1978). ***419 F. Supp. 753 (E.D. Tenn. 1976), 549 F. 2d 1064 (6th Cir. 1977), 8 ELR 20513 (1978). 14