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.
E um plano foi elaborado para que o Longo Agora avalie se será possível comprar o vale inteiro, porque essas 10 fazendas com seus 7.000 hectares dominam um vale de 1.300 quilometros quadrados de pastagens, e há a possibilidade de se levar tudo por 5 milhões de dólares e gradativamente restaurar a vegetação nativa, e de alguma maneira devolver ao National Park, o que dobraria o tamanho do Great Basin National Park.