Yes, one of the most generous men I have every known. Most of the quoted allowances would be chump change. Has preserved over a million acres across American for all to enjoy. Just looked, it is currently over 2 million. One of them damn Yankees, who even bought the Cornfield at Antietam and gave it to the park system so it would remain hallowed ground and not developed. You name it medical research, education, historic artifacts, like Lafayettes gifts of pistols he gave to Washington. Conservation...Millions of dollars ++++ .... I think around 400 million at last count....to study and preserve land and enrich habitat for wildlife, some of which we hunt. Some of you have most likely killed game on parts of it. Many others have most likely visited and walked on land they bought and gave back to America.

Great guy, who appreciates his good fortune to be born into the right family and feels an obligation to do more than just go to work and live the good life.

There is a coffee table book out there..."From sea to shining sea" that tells the story of: "The American Land Conservation Program and its gifts of more than two million acres of parks, refuges, wildlife habitat and historic sites to the people of the United States." And that is only a small part of the entire picture.


He has little time for fools and many here would think him aloof....We need more like him.

Last edited by battue; 09/19/22.
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