Our property is 103 acres, all wooded with mostly hardwoods. There are some areas with pines also. Also, I do have the one 1/2 acre clover plot that I put in. We timbered (select cut) 3 years ago. It is coming along well. Alot of regrowth....the deer are really browsing well now. Before they hardly had anything. I have an area behind my house that is mixed with pine, laurel, and some hardwoods....it is the thickest area on our property. The deer do bed in it, but I'm not sure how much or often. As it is now, it is ok...and we stay completetly out of it pretty much all the time. I did go through there a week ago (a couple days after the fresh snow) to see what it looked like. There were plenty of beds in small (2-3's)groups up to as many as 8 or so together. I figure does and fawns. This was the first time I had even walked through this area since last year. I would guess it is about 10 acres total, with probably 5 or so that actually have the makings of a decent bedding area(starting to get thick). Some of the hardwoods in the area were taken when we timbered, but not that many. There weren't a whole lot of decent sized trees in the area. Just below it is a big year round stream, so they have plenty of water within 150 yds. Also my clover plot is about 300 yds from it. Bordering 2 sides are good hardwoods that had plenty of mast (this year).
I would like to make it a "great" bedding area eventually. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I could do to enhance this area?

Thanks