How does a Wall Street hedge fund guy end up caring so much about conservation that he spends $175 million on a huge chunk of the Southwest — and then basically hands most of it over to the federal government a few years later? (See Wall Street Donors.)
Louis Bacon — the billionaire founder of Moore Capital Management who recently agreed to put a 90,000-acre track of land he owns in a conservation easement — has pointed to the influence of his grandfather, Louis T. Moore.