By Karen MorfittOctober 24, 2019 at 10:57 am

Filed Under:Colorado News, Colorado Ranchers

DENVER (CBS4) – The debate over wolf reintroduction into western Colorado is heating up, and a discussion about the idea took center stage at the University of Colorado Denver on Wednesday night.

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“I’m not here to lobby anybody to vote any particular way, that’s up to Coloradans. I’m here to share what I understand to be reliable science,” Montana state Sen. Mike Phillips said.

In addition to being a Democrat who represents the Bozeman area of Montana, Phillips is also a wolf advocate and wolf biologist who works with the Rocky Mountain Wolf Project, one group pushing for reintroduction in Colorado to be put on the ballot in 2020.

“Coloradans don’t have a recent history with this species, so its easy for some people to imagine the worst,” Phillips said.

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