One of the farms I hunt has been logged. We checked it out this weekend and its a mess in there. There are tree tops everywhere. The deer will be able to bed wherever they want. Most of the trails are now covered and the timber is much more open than it once was. There are a number of logging roads that were created by the logger to get around to the trees he wanted. I would think the deer will use those roads heavily with all the tree tops laying everywhere. Does anyone have any experience hunting the year after a tract is logged?

I have hunted many spots after being logged and it was great. The deer will hit the edges and browse on the new growth. Not a bad deal at all as some would think. Finding a spot for a tree stand may be hard but if at all possible hunt the transition areas.

they are hard to hunt especially when all the new undergrowth takes off. but they are deer magnents. try hunting the logging roads mabey!!

tough to find the deer, but they will develop easy travel corridors/feeding areas, once you locate them, it will be a gold mine..

Places that have been cut can be strange sometimes to say the least! I hunt mostly areas that have been cut as paper companies own most of the land here. Some cuttings the deer will use the same trails they have been using for years. Other cuttings they travel through and in and out of the twich roads that the skidders have left behind. Then other cuttings they only travel around on the backs of the cuttings. I think a lot of this is due to pressure from hunters as well as predators. As the cuttings start to grow the deer will travel through them even more so to get the young saplings and rasberry bushes. Up here almost all of the cuttings has wild rasberry bushes in them and the deer appear to love eating them. Good Luck to you and I think you will be successfull. Those twich roads gives you a good clean place to shoot through..

Newly cut areas can turn into "Honey Holes" real quick with all of that new growth. For the nextfew seasons the ground level browse will thicken up and that is always good for the deer (more food). It can be a little frustrating patterning in this type scenario but once you find some key areas you will be pleasantly surprised.

It happened to my best hunting spot. They logged it for over 2 years, and took all of the mature trees in it. The first couple of years after it happened, the hunting was tough, because there wasn't anything predicatable in the patterns and it was a mess. But we ended up burning it all, and ridding of a lot of the dead brush. Now (5 years later) it's an awesome spot. Lots of new growth and a lot more foliage and cover for the deer. The carrying capacity of the spot when up.

They did ours awhile back and its great now

They actually just logged my areas out last year. I didn't kill a deer with a bow, so I had to be an orange marine and they were still logging all through rifle season. I killed a buck opening morning, but it was almost impossible to hunt while it was happening. I went out for the first time sincethey logged itthis morning just to check it out. It's still a mess with a bunch of undergrowth and it seems like the only thing really growing are Sumac and Locust tree's all too small to climb. So I might try it out with a blind this year. In walking and glassing about 600 acres today, I saw 3 does and 3 fawns (one with twins) and aSMALL flock of turkeys. It's gonna be a rough onethis year

Pretty much all I have ever hunted is either logged country and or wilderness here in the northern part of Idaho. Logging country creates phenominal habitat for whitetail, elk, bear, and turkeys out here if itslogged right. Like many have said above, you have to learn how the deer will now use the area. Theres only one way to do that and thats toscout and observe it as much as possible before season. Food sources will become plentiful over time if the loggersopened up the canopy and even better if they burned all the slash...The feedwill most likely become cyclic so keep tabs on changing browse species and native food sources. I've always put 99% of my stock in hunting whitetails on bed and food and not the rut. Because essentially during the rut your just hunting doe family to and from feeding and bedding areas anyway. Get your doe familys travel routespatterned this summer and keep tabs on them this fall.

As a logger myself, I'veexperiencedsuccessful wildlife plots put in right after I've logged an area even in the summer if you can get water on them. Use the loglandings and skid trails to spread seed..while the dirt is still freshly turned. Skid trails out here in thick mountainous terrain serve as great travel corridors by bucks, especially when they get so grown in most humans wouldnt dare try walking through them. One of my landowners I logged for put alfalfa in every area I cleared brush on.. he kills a buck and bull elk every year nowwithout ever leaving his 20 acres.

Good luck and be patient like KS said..over time that area will only add more feed and thick cover for the critters versus a thick canopy with no vegetation.