We've never done any clear cutting but we didlog our mountain ground16 years ago andthere's no doubt that it helped our deer herd.Believe it or not, it took about 12 yearsfor the underbrush and bushes to begin to choke themselves out, but all the while therehave been more deer as a result of the timber harvest.Compared to the neighboring properties, we have the "honeyhole" (as many like to say on this board) and I thinkmuch of this is due to thetimbering that we didmany years back.

More sunlight = more growth = more food. The end result is more nutrition for the wildlife, and they stick around because they like the chow.