How quaint. Arrogant rich bastards are so charming. I think his horses crap too much so they need to be shot.
I think buying land so that it can do nothing is dumb. But people can do what they want with their money. The strategy of buying land to get it out of the extraction business is much better than petitioning the government to make the extraction business illegal.
I figure in a generation or two, people will realize that putting the land to good use is just smarter than owning land because it looks pretty.
Worst-case scenario is that the old conservationists give the land to the federal government to avoid property taxes. Then it's off the market forever.
What’s your problem with this? Are you a communist? Do you dislike rich people, or just rich people who buy land? Is someone necessarily arrogant and a bastard because he buys mountain land for his own uses?
It astonishes me that some people on this thread are hostile toward an American who buys land of his own, using his own money, and maintains it as he pleases. That is certainly what I would do if I won the lottery. What’s the point of being rich if you can’t use your own land as you wish? Isn’t that what all the supporters of individual property rights want to see when they insist that landowners be allowed to use the land they own for logging or development? Well, this man and others like him want to use their land for looking at or riding across. It’s his land, he can do as he pleases with it.