On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousandyear-old redwood in Humboldt County, California.
Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a mountain on December 10, 1997, for what she thought would be a two- to three-week-long "tree-sit." The action was intended to stop Pacific Lumber, a division of the Maxxam Corporation, from the environmentally destructive process of clear-cutting the ancient redwood and the trees around it. The area immediately next to Luna had already been stripped and, because, as many believed, nothing was left to hold the soil to the mountain, a huge part of the hill had slid into the town of Stafford, wiping out many homes.
Over the course of what turned into an historic civil action, Hill endured El Nino storms, helicopter harassment, a ten-day siege by company security guards, and the tremendous sorrow brought about by an old-growth forest's destruction. This story--written while she lived on a tiny platform eighteen stories off the ground--is one that only she can tell.
Twenty-five-year-old Julia Butterfly Hill never planned to become what some have called her--the Rosa Parks of the environmental movement. Shenever expected to be honored as one of Good Housekeeping's "Most Admired Women of 1998" and George magazine's "20 Most Interesting Women in Politics," to be featured in People magazine's "25 Most Intriguing People of the Year" issue, or to receive hundreds of letters weekly from young people around the world. Indeed, when she first climbed into Luna, she had no way of knowing the harrowing weather conditions and the attacks on her and her cause. She had no idea of the loneliness she would face or that her feet wouldn't touch ground for more than two years. She couldn't predict the pain of being an eyewitness to the attempted destruction of one of the last ancient redwood forests in the world, nor could she anticipate the immeasurable strength she would gain or the life lessons she would learn from Luna. Although her brave vigil and indomitable spirit have made her a heroine in the eyes of many, Julia's story is a simple, heartening tale of love, conviction, and the profound courage she has summoned to fight for our earth's legacy.

Legacy of Luna: An Inspiring Tale of Environmental Activism, Civil Disobedience, and a Two-Year Tree Sit-in to Protect Ancient Redwoods from Clear-Cutting Logging Practices

Biographies & Memoirs

Julia Butterfly Hill

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HarperOne

The Legacy of Luna

Harper, 2000

Book by Julia Butterfly Hill, a woman most known for her historic 738 day tree-sit in an over 1,000 year-old California redwood tree to keep the tree from being cut down and to protest the logging of ancient forests. Ascending on December 10, 1997, she touched ground for the first time in over two years on December 18th after settling an agreement that protected the tree and a buffer zone around it. This book has photos, poetry, artwork, photocopies of her hand made book, all from that time along with photos and artwork since.

"Becoming: Pictures, Poems, and Stories"

Self-published

Aus der Amazon.de-RedaktionIm Dezember 1997 kletterte eine junge Frau namens Julia Butterfly Hill auf einen 60 Meter hohen Redwood-Baum und blieb dort 738 Tage lang. Der Baum, der den Namen Luna bekam, wächst in der Hügellandschaft Nordkaliforniens auf einem Stück Land, das der Gesellschaft Maxxam Corporation gehört. 1985 hatte Maxxam den früheren Eigentümer Pacific Lumber übernommen und sofort damit begonnen, "die Vermögenswerte flüssig zu machen" um die Schulden abzubezahlen -- anders ausgedrückt: den unberührten Redwood-Wald abzuholzen. Umweltschützer beschuldigten die Firma, Holz in einer Art und Weise zu schlagen, dass sich der Wald von selbst nicht mehr regenerieren könne. Vor allem die Organisation "Earth First!" organisierte Baum-Sit-ins, um gegen den Kahlschlag zu protestieren. Als Julia Butterfly Hill am Ort des Geschehens aufkreuzte, nach einer Reise kreuz und quer durch Amerika, waren Holzfäller gerade dabei, die Abholzung des Hangs, an dem Luna ungestört seit 1.000 Jahren stand, in Angriff zu nehmen. Die Botschaft der Baumfrau, teils Tagebuch, teils Abhandlung und teils New-Age-artige spirituelle Reise, ist die Geschichte von Julia Butterfly Hills zweijähriger Odyssee in luftiger Höhe.

Die Botschaft der Baumfrau.

Goldmann

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