Never.
What's the point of going in to the woods and then cutting it down?
What's the point of camoflauging yourself and then showing every thing that walks, crawls or flys you are out there hacking down the cover?
What's the point of looking for a good concealment point and then cutting down the concealment?
What's the point of keeping your mouth shut aboutyour hunting spot you've worked hard to find and then showing every one who walks with in a 100 feet what you've found?
Look like nothing, smell like nothing, sound like nothing, kill like a ton of bricks falling out of the clear blue sky. That's my policy.
Point is, having viable shooting lanes to get get a shot off that won't be deflected. If you got BIG woods, or field surrounding your woods, maybe it's not big deal. For those of us that hunt in thicket, or thick woods, clearing shootinglanes and pathsis smart, and essential. I try to get all my cuting done by the 1st of August. Most of it I do in Febuary or March, but once everything turns green, I always find something in my way, especially 20 feet up a tree. Not everybody has the same hunting terrain, your comments are irresponsibe, and take nothing of others situations into consideration. Doesn't do me much good to find a honey hole, then not have a shot over 10 yards at anything. Make sense to you?