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Honors •Breaks ninety-day world record for longest tree-sit •Voted one of the Most Admired Women of the year by several Magazines
Luna •Name of the tree Julia saved •Spanish word for moon
Benefits •Luna and all trees in a 200 ft buffer zone were saved •The pacific lumber company donated $50,000 to Humboldt County college for environmental research
Books: •Julia Butterfly Hill- by: Dawn Fitzgerald 2001 •Wrote the Legacy of Luna in 2000
What did she become: •Became expert at giving speeches & interviews over cell phones •Revieved honorary degree from a college •Magazines voted her one of the Most Admired Women of 1998
Challenges •Car accident; recovery takes over 10 months and almost a year to walk & talk normally •While tree-sitting security guards were set up to try to bring her down they kept her from sleeping and taunted and bribed her
Steps Taken •Tree sat for 738 days •No showers, no bed •Recovering from car wreck •Tree-sitting is risky •Learned to climb trees with ropes & harness
pictures come from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Butterfly_Hill http://www.circleoflife.org/ http://www.albionmonitor.com/9807a/butterflyprofile.html http://www.mundus.com/forestville/redwoods.htm
works cited http://www.shiftinaction.com/discover/luminaries/julia_butterfly_hill Books: Julia Butterfly hill
