Tree-Sitter Hopes Loggers Will See the Lights

Julia Butterfly Hill, who has been living in an ancient redwood tree for nearly a year to prevent loggers from cutting it down, is putting up lights for Christmas.

But just as Hill’s tree, which she calls Luna, is hundreds of times bigger than an ordinary Christmas tree, so are her lights. They are flashing beacons with a range of over two miles.

The 24-year-old protester announced the tree-lighting Monday in a news release issued from her 8-foot-by-8-foot platform wedged among thick branches 180 feet up the giant redwood.

She said that with the lights, Luna “will stand bright and tall, reminding each of us that in this time of sharing, we must come together to find solutions.”

Hill and the Rainforest Action Network have been fighting Pacific Lumber Co. in an attempt to save the Headwaters Forest from the woodsman’s ax.