Thank you for the ideas - I like the Juice bottle Idea when they are young.

I did want to mention that I wanted white oaks, maybe not for me as much as for my son, and my cousin's children that own the adoining piece of land. I considered Sawtooth but decided against an exotic. In 30 years I'll be about 65 - retirement age and maybe I'll be able to enjoy the "oak stand", hopefully for at least a few years??

Lunchbucket, I did consider Beech, in fact on the 180 acres, about 40 acres is field that has been turning into woods since the mid 1960s. In this young woods are many beech whips - from 5-7 ft tall. I'm considering transplanting about 20 of them to a small section of the 20 acre field. I'm a little concerned that they will not grow well in the field environment - it seems they grow pretty well in the shade of aspen, ash maple, and cherry.

If my hardwood seedings do not do well, I will look to transplant to different sections, Apple, Maple and maybe Cherry - from the woods as well.