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Deer hunting: Club helps UW peers learn about outdoors

MOUNT HOREB â?? Wind, rain and sleet greeted 14 University of Wisconsin students as they trudged through briars, mud and hilly terrain, driving whitetail deer from the woods.

About a dozen other students â?? members of the Badger Hunting Club â?? waited in anticipation, rifles ready to shoot as deer bolted into a clearing.

The hunt Nov. 8 was a field trip as part of the Madison’s school’s Geography 343 class â?? People, Wildlife, and Landscape â?? in which Professor Lisa Naughton teaches the dynamics of human/wildlife interactions using deer hunting as a case study.