I'm not sure what area of the country you live in but here in New England where we have vast expanses of mature forest the deer respond very positively to logging and I specifically target areas that have had recent cutting especially clearcuts over 10 acres; in fact in the winter the deer practically come to the sound of the chainsaw because with the tree tops on the ground there's a lot more preferred woody browse available for them. The increase in sunlight on the ground stimulates more green growth like blackberry and raspberry but it depends on how much they opened the canopy, if they didn't remove enough trees in an opening then you can get undesirable vegetation like ferns. The deer will adjust. The real question is the land under management by a professional forester or is it just getting cut by a logger because the long term outcomes can be quite different. I cringe when I hear the term selective cut which isn't a forest management or silvicultural practice, it typically means loggers choice or whats called a high grade which is taking the most valuable trees and leaving the worthless trees w/no concern over improving the health of the forest, wildlife habitat or trying to regenerate trees like oak and maple. Now I hunt a property that was high graded and all they left was crooked and deformed trees that I couldn't put my climbing stand in to save my life but they opened up the canopy in large enough areas to create a lot of new growth and its a deer magnet but the landowner will never be able to do another timber sale on the property in his lifetime or mine because he liquidated all the value in it. So the habitat benefits will only last another 5-10 years, now if it was professionally managed by a forester they would have left some good trees and could have been able to continue the habitat benefits through periodic timber sales indefinitely. Sorry for the rant but I can't preach enough that landowners need to hire a licensed consulting forester if they want to do a timber sale. I've seen too many properties get ruined and landowners get ripped off because they didn't go to a professional w/an education and experience in understanding how to manage forests for what the landowner wants. There are many good loggers out there but they are not a forester, big difference, if anyone's interested here's a good document to explain the two and how their roles are different
https://masswoods.org/sites/masswoods.org/files/pdf-doc-ppt/foresters_care_your_land_web.pdf
