Many potential buyers have looked at it and passed over the last few years. They are applying for grading permits now before their other permits expire in June, 2001. The land is still for sale, but they think they want to grade out the golf course to make it more saleable to another developer. If they wait until after that, their permits expire, and they would have to reapply and go through the public hearing process all over again. Many people in Sedona and around the world very much prefer to see Long Canyon saved.
Many people believe Long Canyon is a very special sacred place.
As such it is a key pivotal leverage point with more far reaching impact on the world than most people realize. Many people have the intuition that the fate of Sedona and the entire world will be strongly influenced by what happens in Long Canyon. If it is respected, preserved and treated as a sacred sanctuary, that will bode well for Sedona and the world. If Long Canyon is exploited, degraded and sacrificed on the altar of greed, frivolity and carelessness, that will not bode well for Sedona and the world. What is going on in Long Canyon is very symbolic for the whole Earth.