And a scheme emerged that Long Now is looking to see if it might be possible to buy up the whole valley, because those 10 ranches with their 17,000 acres dominate a 500 square mile valley with their grazing allotments and so on, and there's a possibility that you could get the whole thing for five million dollars and gradually restore it to its wild condition, and somewhere in the process turn it back over to the National Park, and it would double the size of Great Basin National Park. That would be swell.
Long Now zaczynał brać pod uwagę możliwość kupienia całej doliny bo te gospodarstwa o obszarze 6 900 hektarów z łąkami zajmują 130 hektarów i była okazja zdobycia tego wszystkiego za 5 milionów dolarów, by stopniowo przywrócić tam naturalne warunki by po jakimś czasie, oddać to dla parku naturalnego, podwajając jego rozmiar.