Restoring Habitats

For the fourth time in five years, PPL Montana has won the "Outstanding Stewardship of America’s Rivers Award," recognizing the company’s role in managing environmental and recreational resources at its eight hydroelectric power plants and one storage reservoir along the Missouri and Madison rivers.

With the help of the local Animal Protection Society, employees of Eliqsa, a PPL electric distribution company in Chile, relocated little black cormorants, along with their nests, from a downtown plaza in the city of Iquique in northern Chile to the coastal area along the Pacific Ocean.

PPL Montana has worked with partners to restore the rare fluvial arctic grayling, pallid sturgeon and other fish species in the Madison and Missouri River watersheds.

Along river shorelines, PPL Montana has helped restore forests, including cottonwood habitats, on the Missouri River northeast of Great Falls. We work cooperatively with government agencies that include the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and Montana Department of Environmental Quality, as well as nonprofit organizations such as American Rivers, Trout Unlimited and the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy.

From 2000 through 2009, PPL Montana has committed $23 million for recreation, fisheries, water quality and wildlife habitat development along a 524-mile portion of the Madison-Missouri River corridor.

Assisted by man, protected by laws and bolstered by its own ability to adapt and evolve, the bald eagle has been making a comeback in Pennsylvania.

Where only two decades ago there were only two known nesting pairs of eagles in the state, now there are more than 80 nesting sites. And PPL's Holtwood Environmental Preserve is home to four of them. Since the first nest was established in 1998, 22 eagles have been born at the Holtwood facility in the lower Susquehanna River valley.