It’s not just any canyon.

Arizona’s Grand Canyon is one of the Wonders of the World. It has breathtaking aesthetic, spiritual, recreational and scientific significance.

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That means the proposal to build a resort with an elaborate cable-gondola system has to be seen in the larger context. It is about much, much more than economic development on the Navajo Reservation.

It is about the best interests of a national treasure.

Read the full editorial at:

http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/editorial/2014/09/04/grand-canyon-gondola/15107507/