A CANDY BILLIONAIRE SOLVES HIS NIMBY PROBLEM

摘要

Forrest E. Mars Jr., the 81 -year-old former copresident of his family's eponymous candy-and-food conglomerate, never gives interviews. But he has made one thing abundantly clear: Under no circumstances does he want a coal-carrying railroad to pass through his 100,000-plus-acre Montana ranch. Mars, who is worth an estimated $17 billion, at one time allied himself with the ranchers and farmers who oppose the Tongue River Railroad, which would make possible a huge expansion of the Otter Creek coal mine. He filed lawsuits to prevent energy-exploration projects on his ranch. And he was a donor-although not a very generous one-to a local conservation group called the Northern Plains Resource Council.