Calif. As of Friday, Dec. 10, Butterfly will have lived in the tree for two years in an effort to save it from being cut down. Since then, Julia Hill, known to her friends as Julia Butterfly, has changed her life. The money would then be donated to Humboldt State University for forestry research. On a cool fall day, the forest Hill calls home soars above the mists, thousands of dark green spires brushing against a pale gray sky. Also visible is the red-brown scar of a mudslide that destroyed seven homes in the small community of Stafford.
Activists blame the slide on clear-cut logging.
At Luna's base, the only sound is the rushing murmur of the wind. I'm going to grab it real quick and be right with you. She's been interviewed scores of times. She's been visited actor Woody Harrelson and singers Bonnie Raitt and Joan Baez. Do not give in to eco-terrorism.