I dont think there is enuff grazing going on to compare to fire. Timber would take over in a few years in most every area here. If you could bush bog the place every year to keep the trees from shading all the low browse out, then maybe.
I think you could rotate the cattle frequently enough to really minimize the woody species......You dont see many trees growing in cow pastures......That's not to mean that we plan to take the vegetation back to the point of looking like a cow pasture but I believe they would control a lot of the sweetgum type succession.....Still though, If I were managing a property for deer I'd want some areas that started getting into that third successional stage before I reset it.....deer love those high woody stem count areas for cover
