CJ I admire your passion, and I realize that everyone will have different priorities, but the idea of cutting cherry, walnut, ash, or maple just to leave it lie and feed the deer, probably won't fly very well to anyone with an interest($$$)in timber management.
On the other hand, some of those scrub varieties you mentioned sound quite plausible.
A new, or possibly uninformed property owner might be shocked to learn just how much value those seemingly all alike trees just might contain.
