Early Riser is dead on. Join Quality Deer Management Assocation $25 well spent plus discounts on all trees, plots etc. Up here in the Northeast and Mid-atlantic region we do well with sawtooth and gobbler sawtooth oak. Good luck! Try to make a year long calendar for habitat improvements. ex. Jan. while forest is thin do clear-cut. Leave stump as this produce limb suckers, which equals winter browse. Feb. Brush piles for small game. March lime plots. keep it simple. do something different each month and you will notice different things about the outdoors. Just being there is why I continue. Try trail cameras (a cheap one will do. Under $80 cabelas.) you will be surprised at whats out there.