Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.
I think people who don't know the woods very well sometimes imagine it as a kind of undifferentiated mass of greenery, an endless continuation of the wall of trees they see lining the road. And I think they wonder how it could hold anyone's interest ...
...only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others.
