RE: trees, trees, and more trees
You definitely need a tree book. The Bois D'Arc is the Osage Orange (Bois D'Arc is french for wood of the bow. Before fiberglass, it was the best of the bow woods). Better get a hard bound book, you'll wear out a paperback.
The Pin or Willow oak is not really a good forage tree, a very beautiful shade tree and grows extremely tall.
One other tree not memtioned; Pear trees. deer will clean them up, especially after a good frost causes them to soften.
Russ