I've recently been listening to some stuff from Craig Harper and his approach is pretty interesting. This is obviously a huge oversimplification but I'm intrigued.

"Greenfields" - He basically recommends an "old field" approach where you maybe cut it 1x per year or even less, and spot kill unwanted species with herbicide. Target 4-5ft tall cover with a lot of forbs. Potentially mow a strip out in the middle of it that you can only see from ground level via an elevated stand. Put a corn feeder out in the middle of it if you want to see a bunch of deer. Big focus on creating some structure to the field in order to create some level of cover along with additional food.

"Forest Management" - Leave mostly mast producing trees (Oak, Beech, Pecan, maybe Hickory, Fruit Trees) and then kill, hinge, or stump everything else.

Does anyone use an approach like this? Seems relatively lower maintenance.

Anecdotally - we had some greenfields at our old lease that were (mostly) plain grass with some clover and other things we'd planted over the years mixed in, though it was low effort planting and none of it really took off. Deer would stop by there but it wasn't really a "destination" location. My dad liked "playing farmer" and would brush hog the fields about once a month. The last year we had the lease, he got a bit sick, and it was barely brush hogged. We saw more deer in it that year than in other years where it was consistently cut.