Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West

by Justin Farrell

As another example, a committed free-market advocate from San Francisco believes that some places in the United States should be off limits from this type of free-market thinking. For this reason, he has become involved in local environmental conservation, especially through the Jackson Hole Land Trust. He explains, “I’m already probably showing my cards with my involvement in the Land Trust and my environmental views. I believe that there ought to be places where … somebody advocates for no development or no growth.… You know I have a career that is very much free markets and allocating capital where it is best employed, you know that’s deeply embedded in the way I think but as I said earlier there has to be overrides, there has to be limits placed on that otherwise we will chew up every available square foot of this country and exploit it.”