I see heavy bur oak browsing on my place. For every one that made it past the deer, there are probably 50 that don't. It's not a problem though because I have bur oak seedlings everywhere. I've actually cut even more down to pick a winner. There's a good next generation crop of them coming that are about 8' tall and an inch or two at the base.
Just when I think I've got browse figured out, I discover something new. On my place (wet and flat), when I clear an area, the hardest hit stuff is ash sprouts. When I started, red osier dogwood didn't stand a chance and I had no soft mast. I'm starting to get ahead of that. I go out and find flowering stuff in spring (chokecherry, juneberry) and mark it for clearing later on. I keep the oaks and birch, and knock down ash and poplar to turn them into stump feed and ground cover. Also save the balsam fir, black spruce, dogwood, maple (don't have much maple), arrowwood viburnum, hazelnut, and beaked hazel. If I find something I can't ID, and it's rare, I keep it.
Lots of flowers come when the sun starts hitting the ground too. Found a handful of new flowers for the first time this past summer in one of my select cuts. Skull caps, jewelweed, swamp aster, and willowherb come to mind.