One other piece of advice if you're hunting public land and want to keep your stand location secret from most hunters. Learn to climb so that you do as little damage to the bark as possible. No need to leave sign for the next guy to know where to put his tree stand.
I see a lot of trees on public land that may as well be painted bright orange, reading 'Hunt Me' because someone scraped up the bark so much. Pine trees are especially hard to climb without leaving marks.
A good hunter will probably still find your location just by reading the same deer sign that you did, but no reason to make it any easier for them by leaving a scarred tree in the middle of the hot area.