Careful now Mennoniteman! Lets not forget to leave the wild apple trees and wild pear trees standing as well, and leave the service berry trees to announce springtime and ten or so per acre of the best veneer timber trees per acre if we are mostly interested in brush(30 or so if more interested in timber with adequate brush). The veneer timber trees would then grow close to twice as fast diameter wise and bring in lots of habitat dollars, The white oaks could produce 7 (Yes SEVEN) times the acorns and also grow almost twice as fast diameter-wise while the red oaks may double in acorn production and also almost double tree diameter wise and the spring service berry bloom would be awesome (assuming all trees mentioned have a four sided release). And the wild apples and pears may double to ten or twenty fold their unreleased crop of apples. And still as you said, the resultant "deer habitat should be thicker than the hair on a dog". I know you know this stuff Mennoniteman but we must be careful not to lead new guys to jump in without looking at the whole picture first.
footnote;The oak results were documented in the book written by Perkey,Wilkins and Smith, US Forest Service, Parsons,West Virginia. The book is titled Crop Tree Management In Eastern Hardwoods NA-TP-19-93 This book has been instrumental in my development of habitat thinking.
Here is a link to the Crop Tree Management book. Crop Tree Management is a super tool for us deer habitat managers as well as timber managers. It lets us "have our cake and eat it too".
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http://u.osu.edu/beelab/files/2016/02/CropTreeMgmt-1h35gph.pdf
The apple increases are merely unscientific but conservative guesses based on what I have witnessed here and the service berries are just assumed.
Getting back to the original theme of this thread, the exclusion fence, I'd consider putting in the food plot right now surrounding the fence with something low maintenance like a fall planted clover mix, with chicory and rye added. Making the plot as wide as the tallest tree plus ten feet will significantly reduce falling tree damage and get a few generations of deer used to coming to feed there. And then when the fence is removed--WHAT A SETUP!