RE: hunting logged areas?
The same thing happened where I hunt about 4 years ago, only they did it during the season and somehow saw my stand because when I walked in it was the only tree standing. The couple years I was able to hunt it, I saw a lot of deer. There was sign all over the place too. I think they're great to hunt, but once they start to get thick, the best pattern I found was to hunt close to the logging roads. They seemed to like traveling them.