Coalition Published in Rewilding Earth

Coalition Coordinator, Jim Bailey, has published an illustrated essay titled “Bison Advocacy: The Tranquilizing Drug of Gradualism” in Rewilding Earth, an e-journal of the Rewilding Institute. 

Part of the title is taken from a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. as he inspired activism during the civil rights movement. Bailey draws an analogy of largely accepted slow progress in civil rights with the century-old failure to restore public, wild bison in Montana. He concludes; “For bison restoration, we must move past the comfortable stance of endless negotiation and shunning of those who dare to speak frankly for bison. It is time to discard the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.”

See the essay at rewilding.org/bison-advocacy

Jim Bailey