The 10 to 20 acre area I was considering logging and turning into a santuary is an area where the deer do like to bed but in small numbers since it's currently a small area with very little cover. The property currently has lots of white oak, chestnut oak, and red oak for brows as well as 2 acres of food plots and water. What I severly lack is good cover. Halfbaked, you mentioned it took 4 or 5 years for the pines to start comming up. Were these planted as seeds or sapplings and would you recommend any other variety of pine?