It's been more than a year since the Dunedin City Council announced its intention to buy 42 hectares of Foulden Maar, a fossil-rich diatomite reserve near Middlemarch.
Locals with an interest in the fate of the 23-million-year-old fossil site are still in the dark about what the council's planning.
And they're not happy.
RNZ's Otago-Southland reporter Timothy Brown reports.