Sorry,they have little value to wildlife and practically no commercial value,except the black cherry.
Grouse eat black birch buds and deer love red maple and can survive quite nicely in a forest of red maple ,beech and striped maple at 40 DPSM. lots of birds and animals eat the black cherries and birds ,squirrels and chippies eat the red maple seeds.
Why would they want to regenerate oak over cherry?
No one said they did. If an area is all oaks ,ash and maple it is hard to regenerate a stand of cherry with no seed stock.