Sounds similar to the Adirondack forever wild state park.
That was also all cut in the 1800s. Now, you can not touch a tree there. A buddy of mine in-laws owned a camp on one of the lakes up there. I think it is on Saranac. It can only be reached by boat in the summer, snowmobile in the winter when the lake is frozen.
They wanted to rebuild it. What a pain in the neck. He also wanted to turn a boat house into a liveable cabin. It took years to get approval. He could not expand the footprint at all. All the materials had to be barged in. No electricity too. Generator only. No cell service either. A true escape.
He eventually got it done, but had to jump through many hoops.
Saranac Lake is beautiful; the odd thing is that people living in that area are considered “living in the park” (and that isprobably why they can’t do as they please). I hike south of there, in Ringwood/Sterling Forest/Harriman/Bear Mtn. State Parks; the state doesn’t own the land on which the private properties sit.
Those policies will prevent any economic recovery in that area.