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Wolves explain America's urban-rural divide
Colorado reintroduced wolves to stimulate the environment. They’ve also disrupted a traditional industry and way of life.
The ‘warm glow’ of wolves On a frigid January night in Denver, a running group jogs past restaurants, old churches, and niche apparel stores in the River North neighborhood, an area that has symbolized Colorado’s 21st century renaissance and status as a magnet for highly-educated, outdoorsy newcomers. The federal government allocated$125k per year ($3.9m) starting in 1915 to support salaried hunters as they devised new poison and trapping methods and hunted wolves with high-powered rifles. The people in Denver who voted to bring back wolves, says Hoag, the Colorado State economist, considered the benefits they’d get — that warm glow — without paying much attention to the costs that would be inflicted on others.
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