DENVER (KDVR) — A Western Slope county's board of commissioners is set to consider a proposed ordinance that would ban the reintroduction of gray wolves in the county.

The Montrose County commissioners in their regular meeting on Oct. 15 introduced the ordinance, titled the "Non-Native Species Ordinance," that would prohibit the "introduction, transport, release, support, facilitation, or habitat establishment" of non-native animal species within unincorporated parts of the county.

The ordinance had its first reading at the meeting, and the commissioners will consider adopting it at the second reading.

According to a press release from the county, the ordinance explicitly covers "the Canadian gray wolf lineage," which the state has been reintroducing into Colorado's high country after v

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