FH...man that looks good!!!
Mine looks nothing like that. I wish it did.

The area has a logging road around 3 sides of it, with my house on the fourth side . So when we travel through the propery back there, we always use the logging roads or the property outside them. It set's up an area, that has potential to be a good "sanctuary". There is really no reason that we ever have to go in there, unlike some of the other areas on our place.

The thicker part of the area has a mixture of white pines and va pines of various sizes. It's not really thick like in your pics, but more like alot of pines, that you can't see past. Most of the beds I've seen, have been in those pines. The hardwoods are mostly oak, and some hickory. There is some laurel mixed in as well, and some of the area has some misc underbrush. I honestly don't know how good of a bedding area it actually is. The main thing is, we don't go in there, so I would like to enhance the core of this area, and make it a good bedding area for sure, (or at least try).

I know they use the area alot, but haven't done alot of homework to see if there is much buck sign in there or not. There are plenty of trails going through it though. I would have to guess that if the bucks are bedding on our place at all, this would be where. I can't say if we have jumped any nice deer out or not, since we pretty much never go in. I did see a fresh rub in there, on a pretty good sized tree about 3 years ago, on top of the snow at the end of Dec. And for the last couple years there have been some decent rubs around the fringes of the area. However, we've never actually seen a buck in there.

I forgot to mention, that I do have a mineral lick set up on one of the trails leading into the area. They use it alot. Hopefully someday I'll be able to get a trail cam, and see what it hitting it.

I realize that it takes time to create a prime bedding area. Do you guys have any suggestions as to what I could plant that would grow up thick and fairly fast? I'm probably gonna wait until after the season (probably mid Jan) to start researching the area and seeing what I may actually be able to do. If I determine I need to take out some trees, I defintely will.

Thanks.