Terrificial Trees: Tree Sitting Woman
By Leslie Lindsay This is the last day of “Terrifical Trees,” a series devoted to Earth Day/Arbor Day and the magnificent tree. (We’ll be moving into the Mother’s Day series next Friday and continue through the month of May). Flipping through a semi-recent issue of The Sun, I came across a story I just had to share: it was about a woman who felt so strongly about the redwood forests that she volunteerily climbed into a tree and lived there for two years!! Seems the lumber industry wanted to chop the tree down. If someone was living in the tree–and refusing to come out–it was nearly impossible to cut the thing down. A little bold, huh? Well, according to Julia ‘Butterfly’ Hill the 30-something vegan who sat in the tree–affectionately referred to as ‘Luna’–for 738 days (yes, I remembered that number because it was a childhood street address), it was all out of love. She didn’t intend to sit in the tree for that long, however. She recalls that it was intended to be a two-week tree sit. …
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