A Woman Lived 738 days on Top of a Thousand-year-old Redwood to Avoid It Being Logged Down

“At the beginning of my activism, I became aware that 97% of the forests of these ancient redwoods have already been destroyed,” she explained. In California a form of protest began in the late 1970s known as “tree sitting“, living in them to protect their logging. Julia Hill, who was nicknamed “Butterfly” at age seven, had been living with environmental activists in Humboldt County, Northern California.