Looks good, Chummer. Your idea of adding some late dropping apples & maybe some dogwoods is a good one. Dolgo's are earlier droppers, so if you have some later droppers too, you'll have a longer period of attraction to your land.
White and Norway spruce would be a big plus to newly opened ground. I've planted them in lazy rows to get deer moving along them to a food source or between 2 open areas - it works !! Block plantings ( of spruce ) make great winter thermal cover and/or security cover ANY time of the year. My camp and about 8 other ones near ours have all been planting spruce for over 20 years and it's been nothing but good. One of the most heavily travelled buck corridors I've ever seen is where an area was logged about 30 years ago and on both sides of the skid road ( state land ) spruce were planted right after logging was done. To this day, every fall, there's heavy regular buck movement along that entire road even though the road is fairly closed in with spruce limbs. ( It's no problem walking the road - it's just not 15 ft. wide any more ). Rubs and scrapes are found all along that road as the leaves drop. The spruce keep it dark and shadowy even in daylight - great security when the leaves drop and the surrounding woods are open.
My camp just had logging done this year too. After talking to 4 separate foresters, they said leave the tops if we wanted better deer cover. Tops provide free " fencing " to let seedlings sprout while keeping deer off them until they get established. So we left the tops like you did. This coming spring, we'll be planting spruce in the logged area - some in blocks for thermal cover - some in lazy, meandering rows for directional travel. We should end up with a good mix of oaks, maples, hickories, cherry, pines and spruce. You'll have a blank canvas to work with where the logging was/is being done. Best of luck up there !!!
