Redwood trees, a thousand years old, which could live for another millennium are being turned into fences which will rot in decades, or pulped into newspapers which are old by tomorrow. Julia Butterfly, has spent a year in one redwood tree, hoping to save thousands more acres of forests from rotting rapidly. Last winter she climbed a hundred feet up into a small platform in a tree she calls Luna, deep in the Headwaters Forest, home to several of the few remaining ancient groves of redwoods.
Redwood forests are among the largest and oldest living species on Earth.
Humans have a brief history in comparison, a termite people for the most part, arrogant and destructive. Sacred Groves-Tree Top Druid Julia Butterfly's courage to act on her belief that these trees are sacred and must be saved is an amazing story even to people who disagree with her. One lumberjack who tried to make her life miserable, by cursing her and cutting trees nearby, instead fell in love with her and her cause. He moved to Alaska, but still writes to her. Her charisma and intelligence have made her story famous although the local newspapers have barely covered what's happening only a hundred miles north.