Could you provide us with an aerial photo so we can see the way the land layout is? It would help everyone out a little bit more.

Off the top of my head a few things I would do if you plan on having this property years down the road 10+ years:

• Try and get an inventory of your predators.

• Get a soil sample done on the places where you will be adding plots.

• After you do that consult a state biologist

• Establish a "sanctuary" that you won't even hunt. If you can and can afford I would plant some pines in some of that open area you have. Establish your sanctuary with some kind of tall grass planted into the mix of pines. Plant it next to the woods or plant multiple patches throughout all the open land and on the border of the property to give them some kind of seclusion especially if you are drawing them from other properties. Gives them a place to feel safe while they travel.

• Limit your hunting pressure and honestly I would not hunt it for at least one season unless you have a bunch of does over bucks and shoot a few does and of course trapping or hunting predators. I have just started on the whole predator scene so there are guys on here that could chime in on that. Use a bow only (personal preference) just because I have hunted both bow only places and places with guns and the deer activity always seems higher with bow only places.

• If there is not a creek running through it build a "small pond" if you don't have one. I would personally put it near the sanctuary