In late 1997, the Pacific Lumber Company was (0) PLANNING to cut down a 600-year-old, 61-metre-tall redwood tree in California, USA. To the tree, people camped in tents near it but, as winter approached, they went home.
Tree lover Julia Hill decided that she had to stay to the company from cutting down the tree, so she climbed it. Julia's 'home' was a 2-by-3-metre tree house where she slept, cooked meals and gave interviews on her phone. Friends visited her nightly and supplied her with food in a bucket. she had thought she might stay up there for perhaps a month, she stayed for longer, nearly two years.
Julia had famous all over the world. It ended on December 17. 1999. The Pacific Lumber Company received $50,000, and the tree was to live. Finally, Julia was able to climb down and go home.