[new to mods, having issues running them]

Those 2 mods may be incompatable and you'll have to pick one or the other. However sometimes you just need to change the order to make them compatable. That's all I've got, sorries.

[Mod Request: Journal or personal notes]

You can add markers to the map and name them. Would that suffice?

[Searching for a solution that zombies dont destroy the landscape]

If they dig or explode the landscape suffers. You are able to repair the ground but rebuilding a mountain might be too much to expect. I don't know of an ini setting that would let you dig but not the zeds. Sorries, I'm not a programmer