The Legacy of Luna
The Legacy of Luna 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 thousand-year-old redwood in Humboldt…
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The Legacy of Luna
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 thousand-year-old redwood in Humboldt County, California. Over the course of what turned into an historic civil action, Hill endured El Ni o storms, helicopter harassment, a ten-day siege by company security guards, and the tremendous sorrow brought about by an old-growth forest's destruction. Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree 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.
"My respect for Julia Butterfly Hill is fathomless. This story-written while she lived on a tiny platform eighteen stories off the ground-is one that only she can tell. At a time when so many have grown disheartened at the inability of any
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