He was a 2-bit land-baron.
Buying-up property outside his property, so no turbine-towers would be visible from his front-porch. But his neighbors would be stuck with seeing them from their front-porches.
Then there was the situation where he and his kid were clearing land to name highway rest-stops after each other. I think they resolved that boondoggle. His kid went-on to introduce China to Duke Energy. Not sure whatever happened with that.
Eventually came the Bundy-Ranch 'free-range' blunder, when he and the BLM backed-down against 'American public-opinion' after bringing armed-troops against law-abiding ranchers. I think that was part of the rest-stop boondoggle.