I do too...to a certain extent, there's definitely something to be said for overgrown abandoned fields. That said there's a time and a place (as well as a circumstance) for everything. My life philosophy (I'm realizing more all the time) is "everything in moderation" it just fits with everything I seem to find myself doing. Nearly everything I look at that is successful seems to share the trait of being well rounded in all facets and thats the general approach I try to take here on the farms. For me, the places I leave for deer sanctuaries fill the same niche as abandoned fields and some (in a few cases) are actually abandoned fields that are rocky, highly erodible or over run with hedge and locusts that I have not gotten around to cleaning up (and may never). The worst problems with these is that ignoring them too much for too long and you just end up with brush like everything else in the area. The other problem is that useful fields that are pretty decent are at a particularly valuable level right now as they are an important and limited resource here. It's a nice challenge to try to find an equilibrium between field utilization of a natural state and crop.
What program or app did you use to do the pictures? Also it seems like a very good plan. My 2 cents would to see a blind or stand sight on the northern end of the property.
I took a screenshot of the property on Google Earth, then used paint to color, etc. Hard to access the Northern end of the property. Would do more harm than good to hunt it.
