MD, I have had this issue as well where I hunt. Not much I can do about it as I don't own the land but it does suck to arrive the following season and finding a very good and productive area barren of what it was. My biggest ax to grind (not pun intended) about it is the minimal oversight of the entire process. Talked to guys that get permission to go in a cut dead timber, pines, and a few other trees but then end up cutting down everything in their path including grand oaks and trees along what has been actually declared marsh lands. Then they turn around and plant pines in their place. It sucks but gotta move on and find a new place to hunt.