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	Julia Butterfly Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Julia Butterfly Hill in the redwood tree Luna.
		Julia Butterfly Hill (born 18 February 1974) is an American activist and environmentalist.
		Hill was the subject of the 2000 documentary film Butterfly, and she is featured in the documentary film Tree-Sit: The Art of Resistance, both chronicling her time in the redwood tree.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Julia_Butterfly_Hill (518 words)

	WOMAN STRIKES DEAL AND ENDS TWO-YEAR VIGIL IN A TREE
		Hill ended her tree-sitting protest on Saturday, December 18th, 1999, lowering herself from her perch 18 stories high in the branches of the redwood she called Luna.
		Julia had maintained her vigil with the assistance of a dedicated support group that brought her food, water, supplies and mail.
		Hill states that Luna, the tree she had occupied since December 10, 1997, and the surrounding steep and unstable hillside are representative of the many areas that the Agreement falls to adequately protect.
	www.ecomall.com /greenshopping/julia2.htm (1115 words)

	PCRM Gala: The Art of Compassion > Julia Butterfly Hill
		On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill, then 26, came down to a world that recognized her as a heroine and powerful voice for the environment.
		Julia Hill chose the name Butterfly while in her childhood years, and like her namesake, she has undergone a great metamorphosis.
		Julia and other forest activists founded Circle of Life to inspire, support and network individuals, organizations, and communities so together we can create environmental and social solutions that are rooted deeply in love and respect for the interconnectedness of all life.
	www.pcrm.org /gala/speakers/butterfly.html (407 words)

	Butterfly's Descent
		Julia Hill came along in the October of 1997, on a self-described journey of spiritual discovery.
		Julia Hill became Butterfly and she christened the Stafford Giant, Luna, embodying it with a spiritual presence.
		But Butterfly was their Ace in the Hole, the title of a good movie years ago, when Kirk Douglas acts a reporter who realizes that the story will die as soon as the man stuck down a mine shaft is rescued.
	www.counterpunch.org /butterfly.html (2126 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Julia Butterfly Hill
		Julia Butterfly Hill lived on a six-by-eight foot platform roughly 18 stories high for two years, sheltered from the elements in a tent made from tarpaulin.
		What sets Julia Butterfly Hill apart from most of her fellow human beings is that she has a powerful sense of being alive and in touch with the earth that gave her life.
		Julia returned to Arkansas long enough to settle her accounts with the old life and returned to take up the cause.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A369443 (1434 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Julia Butterfly Hill, From Treetop to Grass Roots
		Hill, you might recall, was the hippie waif who became an international story in the late '90s when she lived 180 feet up an ancient redwood for 738 days to stop a lumber company from cutting it down.
		Hill preaches doing activism out of love of life, being conscious of the connection we have with all living things, from microorganisms to mountains.
		Hill was a backdoor activist, after all, almost not chosen to sit in that tree because of her lack of activist experience.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A40230-2004Sep21?language=printer (1608 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Julia Butterfly Hill
		Julia Butterfly Hill, twenty-six, is a writer, a poet, and an activist.
		Hill has been the recipient of many honors and awards, and is a frequent speaker for environmental conferences around the world.
		In December of 1997, Julia Butterfly Hill ascended a redwood tree in the coastal mountains of Northern California.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-hill-julia-butterfly.asp (1153 words)

	Connectivity 2006: Julia Butterfly Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Julia Butterfly Hill brought international attention to the plight of the world’s last remaining ancient forests when she climbed 180 feet into the branches of a 1000 year-old redwood tree and refused to come down.
		Julia Butterfly Hill is an activist, a writer and a poet.
		Julia Butterfly Hill speaks regularly on university campuses, has addressed the United Nations, lobbied congress, and has continued to stand on the front lines of environmental and social justice issues all over the world.
	www.connectivity2006.org /index.php?id=731 (538 words)

	OWU Online \| Julia Butterfly Hill
		Hill may be best known for spending 738 days in the branches of a 1000-year-old redwood tree to protest the environmental destruction caused by the clear-cutting of ancient redwoods in late '90s.
		Hill wrote about her accounts in The Legacy of Luna, published in 2000, which became a national best-seller and will become a major motion picture to be released later this year.
		Hill speaks regularly on university campuses, has addressed the United Nations, addressed congress and continued to stand on the front lines of environmental and social justice issues all over the world.
	news.owu.edu /2005/butterfly.html (332 words)

	Julia Butterfly
		Hill could not be reached for comment, but a spokeswoman said she will hold a news conference today "in person" in the former logging town of Stafford.
		Hill, 25, was an unemployed drifter--the daughter of an itinerant preacher--when she joined the forest protest movement that took off in Humboldt County after Maxxam Corp. bought Pacific Lumber and began clear-cutting large tracts of forests.
		Hill has engaged in a 2-year "tree-sit" in a tree she refers to as "Luna" in order to call attention to the issue of protecting old-growth trees.
	www.earthportals.com /julialuna.html (877 words)

	The Courage of Conscience Award - Julia Butterfly Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For 738 days forest activist Julia Butterfly Hill lived 180 feet high in the canopy of an ancient redwood tree to help make the world aware of the plight of ancient forests.
		Julia's occupation of the over 1000-year-old tree known as Luna is only a part of the fifteen-year struggle to save Headwaters Forest and the 3% of the ancient redwood ecosystem that remains.
		Julia Butterfly Hill received the Courage of Conscience Award after her talk at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Campus Center.
	www.peaceabbey.org /awards/juliabutterflyhill.htm (216 words)

	2001 PIELC - Julia Butterfly Hill
		Law student Courtney Brown told the packed EMU ballroom last Thursday that she thought Julia Butterfly Hill was "otherworldly." Yet from the moment she delicately stepped onto the stage with her bare feet, Hill seemed to be pleading with the Eugene audience to see her as a regular person.
		Hill tearfully responded that the accusations were "very hurtful," and continued to be one of the most painful aspects of her work.
		Hill has drawn widespread criticism for her appearances in the mainstream media and her collaboration in a payment of $50,000 to Pacific Lumber/Maxaam to spare Luna, the tree she occupied for two years.
	www.eugeneweekly.com /special/pielc/02.html (623 words)

	Circle of Life: Butterfly's Tale
		Julia Butterfly Hill has been 180 feet, more and less, atop the giant redwood she calls Luna, for 100 days as of March 20th.
		From her tree-sit, Julia Butterfly has won the Leonard Peltier Protector of the Woods Award and the Garberville Veterans for Peace Medal of Valor, from which the cover art was taken.
		Butterfly’s tale was written and annotated by Charley Custer, a writer and poet from Chicago who’s lived in Humboldt county off and on for 15 years.
	www.circleoflifefoundation.org /education/kids/butterflys_tale.htm (6689 words)

	The My Hero Project - Julia Hill
		In December, 1997, Julia 'Butterfly' Hill went out to Northern California to get involved with the efforts of Earth First!, which was attempting to save the redwood forests from the Pacific Lumber Company.
		The Circle of Life Foundation Founded in 1999 by Julia Butterfly, this organization's mission is "to activate people through education, inspiration and connection to live in a way that honors the diversity and interdependence of all life.
		Julia Hill brought public attention to deforestation in California.
	myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=j_hill (1136 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE LEGACY OF LUNA by Julia Butterfly Hill
		Julia "Butterfly" Hill then spent two years living in a redwood tree named Luna, and THE LEGACY OF LUNA is the story of her extreme campaign to save it.
		Hill did survive a great many storms, angry responses from the people who are paid to rip apart national forests, and other humiliations to make her point.
		Written with extreme honesty, Hill's story is a great American tale, putting her in a class with major American activists who have put themselves at risk to move the nation to action.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0062516590.asp (406 words)

	Julia Butterfly
		Hill no matter how worthy her actions are.
		Julia was in a car accident, where she did suffer some brain damage to her analytical functions and you can tell that from her speech.
		Julia's act was more spiritual than practical as Andy says but spiritual acts have their own value.
	www.change-links.org /Luna1.htm (1430 words)

	The Argonauts -- The Legacy of Julia Butterfly Hill
		In December of 1997, Julia Butterfly Hill climbed 180 feet (18 stories) up a thousand-year-old redwood tree to protest the clear-cutting of this endangered ecosystem.
		What was supposed to be a two-week tree-sit turned in to a harrowing two years, and this young woman became a world renowned super-activist, and "Luna," the tree that was her home, was saved from the sawmills.
		Julia often has to remind people that she is simply a human being.
	www.theargonauts.com /stories/2000/060600_julia_hill.shtml (596 words)

	The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
		The book is an autobiography about Hill's entrance into the environmental activist world and an account of her two years sitting in a redwood tree in California.
		Hill's parents taught her to appreciate the simple things in life and when a car accident risks her life, she is reminded that life is precious and nothing should be taken for granted.
		Julia Butterfly Hill truly believes in saving the redwood trees and follows her heart.
	www.afsc.org /pwork/0207/020710b.htm (746 words)

	Ecology Hall of Fame: Julia "Butterfly" Hill
		Julia attracted little individual attention at first, which was fine with her.
		Julia was one of hundreds of activists working to save the Headwaters Forest through a variety of non-violent tactics.
		On September 17, 1998, when Julia was already an international celebrity for her residence in Luna, fellow protester David "Gypsy" Chain was killed in such an incident.
	www.ecotopia.org /ehof/hill/bio.html (636 words)

	Metroactive News & Issues \| Julia Butterfly Hill
		JULIA BUTTERFLY HILL may not be stuck up in a 180-foot-high redwood these days, but the fact that all her 738 days of tree-sitting in the name of environmental activism also won her honest-to-God celebrity cred has given her an entirely different kind of platform from which to keep pursuing her arbor ardor.
		Hill says she knows the attention focused on her is "a really good tool" for drawing support for her causes, and she's running with it.
		Hill will also be appearing at the GaiaSong Conference, which aims to empower the public and give local government a nudge with practical solutions for living and building in ecological harmony.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/09.11.02/hill-0237.html (905 words)

	Biography of Julia Butterfly Hill, environmental activist
		Hill was unemployed -- the daughter of an itinerant preacher -- when she joined the forest protest movement that took off in Humboldt County after the Maxxam Corporation bought Pacific Lumber and began clear-cutting large tracts of forests.
		Nine months before Hill began her vigil living in Luna, in March 1999, Maxxam agreed to sell 7,400 acres of its Humboldt property to the state and federal governments for $480 million to preserve the ancient Headwaters grove and other redwood forests.
		Hill and other environmentalists denounced the deal for preserving too little of the forests and paying Maxxam too much.
	www.peaceheroes.com /JuliaButterflyHill/juliabutterflyhillbio.htm (236 words)

	Interview with Julia 'Butterfly' Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Carrying on in a tradition began decades earlier in Northern California's redwood forests, Butterfly exemplifies the central role of women in today's environmental movement – combining a strong understanding of the current political aspects of the forest controversy with a deep spiritual connection to the forest and the tree she has called home.
		What's more Butterfly's plight represented for many people the archetype of a giant battle taking place between good versus evil – nothing short of a David and Goliath situation playing itself out on the world's stage.
		Butterfly, your three years on Luna reminded me of St Simeon who spent a good deal of his life standing upon a pillar on one foot as a protest against the gross materialistic values of his times.
	www.animal-lib.org.au /more_interviews/butterfly (1014 words)

	Amazon.ca: Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods: Books: Julia Butterfly ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Hill arrived on the scene after traveling cross-country on a whim, loggers were preparing to clear-cut the hillside where Luna had been growing for 1,000 years.
		The daughter of an itinerant preacher, Hill writes of her chance meeting with California logging protesters, the blur of events leading to her ascent of the redwood, and the daily privations of living in the tallest treehouse on earth.
		This novel is a fabulous autobiography of Julia Hill, and her experience living in a redwood tree for two whole years.
	www.amazon.ca /Legacy-Luna-Story-Struggle-Redwoods/dp/0062516590 (1565 words)

	disinformation \| julia 'butterfly' hill inc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		By the time eco-activist Julia 'Butterfly' Hill's 738 day vigil to protect a 200-foot redwood had ended, she had become the charismatic face of the new global activism.
		Hill's powerful coming-of-age memoir The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2000) is likely to achieve bestseller status, raising public awareness of controversial forestry practices.
		Hill's personal courage offered guidance in the tumultuous post-Cold War period that has been defined for activists by Culture Jamming, anti-globalization protests, and a growing suspicion of trans-national corporations.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id400/pg1 (1030 words)

	Julia "Butterfly" Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It wasn't until 738 days later on December 18th 1999 that Hill came down after the lumber company agreed to a preservation agreement that prevented them from cutting down the tree she had been living in.
		Also, an excellent song entitled "Julia Butterfly" was written by the group BEV.
		Julia continues to try and inspire activism and action in others for environmental and humanitarian causes through her Circle of Life Foundation and through public speaking engadgements.
	www.cryptnet.net /people/vab/influences/juliabutterfly/index.html (250 words)

	Interview with Julia “Butterfly” Hill
		Julia Butterfly Hill kept a tree-top vigil on a tarp-covered platform to stop Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Company from completing a timber harvest plan that was to doom the 1,000-year-old redwood tree she called Luna.
		And I was told, in continuation from that, “Julia, what you ultimately stand for amidst all these issues in the world, those are the symptoms of a disease, of dis-ease in our society.” And that what I stand for, what I believe in is the love and hope for the healing of humanity.
		I’m going to be like Julia Butterfly.” And she went and got up…climbed up into the tree and sat up there for about three weeks.
	www.anaflora.com /articles/inter-sharon/interv-hill.html (2996 words)

	Out of her tree - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Julia Butterfly Hill sat in a giant redwood for two years, then kicked the big boys' butts.
		Hill's eyes turn away from us, toward some lofty, Utopian vision in the distance, and it's all one can do not to hurl.
		Granted, there are plenty of saccharine moments when Hill, during her now famous two-year Earth First-initiated tree sit in Humboldt County, Calif., communes with nature or prays to the Universal Spirit to guard over her.
	dir.salon.com /people/feature/2000/06/01/butterflyhill/index.html (603 words)

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