A lot of national forest land was formed from land that was more or less abandoned after the initial logging. Especially as you go east.

Which doesn't mean I want dramatic management changes, but they are hardly pristine.

Probably be healthy for encouraging development in the right places for people to realize that much of what we consider "natural" was dramatically altered fairly recently. They built the park where I live out of sand in like the last 100 years and no doubt more than a few people would object to improving it because it's natural.