If you don’t know that a cut can be over browsed, and even to the point of failure, after five year, or even ten years, of successful regeneration you are only showing how little you know about the ability of deer to affect their habitat when they reach a state of over population.
I m amazed that anyone with the IQ above a stump would make that claim. Stump sprouts will exceed the reach of deer within a year or two. A clearcut that regenerates successfully will be successful after 10 or 20 years.