I've seen that, but it's been some time. We essentially took a similar approach at our place. There is no ag anywhere around where we are / and not hardly any food plots that people plant that I am aware. It's all pines and clear-cuts. The pines are on a rotation and the clear-cuts are getting to the point where they are starting to open up some. We focused on adding some bedding on the interior of our property and several food plots to draw them out of the cover of neighboring properties and hold them in our cover in close proximity to our plots (even if that meant 10% of the time). I focused on hunting them to and from our food. We would get pics of great bucks all night in our food plots, scrapes and travel corridors.....But they would be back to that cover on the neighbors right as it was starting to get light. And you guessed it, right at last light, like timework, you could hear them making their way toward our property to head to our food.
As these neighboring properties of clear-cuts are growing up and adding not nearly the value to deer that they once did, we are now focused on adding phase 2 to our plan. The logger should be starting today on our place. Going from 9 acres of food plots, to 25-27 acres of food plots. Also adding another 45-50 acres of cover. When looking at the next several years, we saw our neighboring properties changing. Those neighboring pines will also be cut in about 3-4 years, so that gives us time to get our plan established and in place before it looks like a nuclear zone. We are making our change to combat the changes around us to where the deer will hopefully favor us.
We do small stuff each year (hack-n-squirt, burn, etc....), but this phase 2 should really kick things into gear. I don't see any more timber harvests in the future. Just burning and maintaining the select-cut areas in natural grasses and forbs / maintaining the food plots. We just try to stay adaptive