Julia Butterfly Hill
Application Assignment #3 Julia butterfly hill (also known as Julia Lorraine Hill ) is an environmental activist best known for living in an over 1000-year-old California redwood tree named Luna. Julia lived in this tree for 738 days from December 10th, 1997 to December 18th, 1999 as an act of civil disobedience in an effort to save the tree from being cut down by the Pacific lumber company. Her main goal was to bring awareness to and prevent the destruction of ancient, ecologically significant forests like the one Luna was a part of. During her time in the tree, she primarily lived on two six-by-six platforms roughly 180 feet above the ground. In one interview, she admitted to rarely washing the bottoms of her feet as the tree sap helped her stick to the branches she would climb daily. Julia would receive food from friends family and her supporters, her food deliveries were once stopped by the Pacific lumber company security forcing her to eat tree bark. Eventually, a...