Without a doubt I think we all know how important a bedding area is, but whats more important is to have a balance of bedding/feeding areas if your land can accomodate. Many folks have very small parcels that they own or can hunt <20 acres. In this case I think it is more important to provide the feeding areas, because it would be very difficult to provide bedding areas on that 20 and also succesfully hunt that 20 without spooking deer too often. Of course alot depends on land placement, terrain etc.

What I have seen as a problem with many people when they aquire a piece of property is that they are just to excited and dive right in. Say you aquire 100 acres, I've seen people just dive right in and make a whole bunch of bedding areas in it. Sure thats great for a few years but then just like that everything is maturing at the same rate. As hard as it is, you're so much better off selectively cutting different areas every year as you will create a good succesion of growth in your forest and give deer a wide variety of habitat. Rarely do deer choose one habitat to live in, they love edges, transitions, etc. By selectively cutting different areas every year, you create this for them, rather than having a forest of old growth and new and thats it.