ORIGINAL: Cougar Mag
Interesting question, but the thing is whitetails can bed anywhere. Fencerows, brushpiles, dry ditches, middle of a field, etc. Food source is #1, creating bedding areas rank much lower IMO.
Cougar, I know you live in the same general area I do and I agree. Deer can and will bed any where. Actually some of the biggest Bucks I have seen bed in the strangest places.
Maybe that's what keeps them alive
Dan