“Democracy,” the cynical line goes, “is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” Colorado is putting on a new twist on the old ideas about wolves and democracy.

For the first time in U.S. history, voters will go to the ballot box this fall to vote yea or nay on deliberately bringing hundreds of 150-pound fanged predators into their ecosystem.

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