Robert,

What you'll find is that managing habitat for deer will benifit and provide cover for many, many, small game species. Just in the last issue of Quality Whitetails there was an excellant article on identifying and various stages of oak tree dominance and successful management of oak stands for ultimate production.

What ends up happening in habitat managment is that if you manage for a specific small game species, you get just that...habitat for JUST that small game species. But, on the other hand, if you manage your property for deer, you will benifit most ALL your small game species, and you can then do a few minor things to meet the needs of targeted small game species. Basically, managing habitat for deer may actually give you more of a "Big Picture", than you may be thinking.

For example, the openings I make in my tag alders provide awesome nesting habitat for woodcock and I have an abundant supply. The hinge-cutting and clearcutting practices I carry out provide great cover for my local snowshoe population as well as grouse. The food plots I create and maintaine provide very high nutrition for my snowshoe population, and the brush from the food plot creations is piled and provides nesting and security cover for the snowshoes as well. The wildlife openings create natural dusting areas for the local grouse. Also, with the abundant small game on the property, I have a good bobcat population, as well as coyote, and the beauty is there is so much small game I don't experience very high predation rates on the fawn crop. Not to mention the verious birds that I couldn't even pretend to identify that benifit from the verious aged stand of timber and edge habitat on the property that is a result of sound deer habitat management practices.

Quality Whitetails Magazine
Neil Dougherty's book, "Grow em Right"
Ed Spinnazola's book, "Food Plots 1-2-3"

and you can probably lots of info from the National Wild Turkey Federation