Never thought that way
Apalachia has been ruined by many organizations. First came the crony capitalist carpetbaggers after the civil war, initially the Carnegies and Vanderbilts, later supplanted by the Kennedys and the J.M. Huber corporation/Koppers Land Company, et al.
What they started, the US govt. finished by either flooding the river valleys or forming national parks. TVA in particular confiscated lands far in excess of what was flooded and took over mineral rights wherever it could.
Go a bit west of Boone. Welcome to the future of America. Southern apalachia has been living it for 100 years now. 80% of the land owned by absentee landlords or some facet of the State. The excess land confiscated by TVA around its reservoirs has been slowly sold to a new generation of carpetbaggers for their McMansions.
I could go on, but what happened to my home area, much of it far before my time, is about to be repeated on a national scale. Different methods will be used, but the results will be identical, outright appropriation and confiscation of resources. It may be the EPA. It may be the Park Service. It may be the State Ag Commission. Probably all of them plus!