The Legacy of Luna : The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods

San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.: HarperSanFrancisco - A Division of Harper CollinsPublishers, 2000. First Edtion Third Printing . Hard Back. Fine/Very Good. 6" x 9 1/2. 257 Pages. Dust jacket price $25 is unclipped. Gift quality. In December 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. Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a mountain in December 1997, for what she thought would be a two to three week tree-sit. The action was intended to stop Pacific Lumber, a division of the Maxxam Corporation, from the environmentally destructive process of clear-cutting the ancient redwoood and the trees around it. The area immediately next to Luna had already been strippe and, because, as many believed, nothing was left to hold the soil to the mountain, a huge part of the hill had slid into the town of Stafford, wiping ot many homes. Over the course of what turned into an historic civil action, Hill endured El Nino storms, helicopter harassment, a ten-day siege by company security guards, and the tremendous sorrow brought about by an old-growth forest's destruction. This story was written while she lived in the tree. Contents in Thirteen Chapters: Fighting Fear With a Fork, Initiation, Getting to Know You, Call to Action, Embodying Love, Under Siege, The Storm, Regeneration, Cross-Fire, Life and Death, A Year and Counting, Inspiration, and The Deal - Maybe. Plus Prologue - The Stafford Story, Epilkogue, and Resources.