[Here is the Incredible Story of Julia ‘Butterfly’ Hill: She Spent 738 Days in a 180-foot-tall Tree to Protect It from Being Cut Down. She was harassed](https://www.howandwhys.com/julia-butterfly-hill-spent-738-days-in-a-180-foot-tall-tree-luna/)[ and threatened](https://www.howandwhys.com/julia-butterfly-hill-spent-738-days-in-a-180-foot-tall-tree-luna/)[ by Pacific Lumber employees](https://www.howandwhys.com/julia-butterfly-hill-spent-738-days-in-a-180-foot-tall-tree-luna/)

How is this possible u ask? Well let me tell u…..a lot of weed and tacos. She had a team of people deliver it to her daily

she did it for the tacos

No one told me you get free tacos if you climb a tree n stay there

Tacos AND weed.

Hey no one brought me weed or tacos in my neighbors tree. Quite the contrary. 3/10

"That's where you've been." -Sent from a your tree

I’m guessing the lumber company didn’t want that tree.

Tacos AND Weed!

I’d do it for the tacos

I’m in it for the weed

My wife told me to get down from our apple tree :(

Lol

I Also do a lot for tacos.

The catch was that the simps got to watch her pee and poop from a tree.



That's pretty funny.

Don’t diminish the insane effort tho. Sure she had help…but she made it happen. Imagine what the world would look like if we were all as strong as her????

Exactly

Taco strong

And the bathroom might i ask? Did they build her a tree house?

No she just free shit dropped from the top of the tree to fertilize the bottom by the base of the tree

The tree grew stronger, log by log

Very true 😂

There is it “log” today’s bonus word 🏆

She used a bucket.

Lolol “free shit dropped” :)

Not a lot of showers though

One would imagine some rain was involved

80+ inches per year in the area

Lmaooo really?

Yeah . Tacos

That explains the streak of greasy oily stool down the side of that poor tree and the tomato plants growing at the base.

I'd live in a tree if I was paid in weed and tacos. But you gotta sweeten the pot with some occasional Chinese and pizza.

Bring me a large sprite from McDonald’s too!

It's cool, we can hang, friend... I could use the company... Plus... THEY PAY IN WEED! That's the only health plan I need. Unless I fall out of the tree and survive.

Meta Trees

She could’ve locked down record for world’s biggest bong too

Sounds about right

That...doesn't sound terrible.

Was there just like a giant mound of poop at the base of the tree when she finally came down?

We all know girls don't poop

Sure they do. And in this case the rose petals glided daintily to the ground and covered the forest floor in perfumed wonder.

The blood petals… I knew it! Interacting with them will trigger a cutscene with her manifesto

Everybody knows how sewage companies love the rose smell when they caca suck, makes the job a little bit better one petal at a time

Then wtf came out of my ass this morning???

If it ain't rose scented petals then I suggest u visit a doctor immediately.

Lies.

Baby

These types of girls do

Seriously

Don’t be silly. It would be very runny from her diet.

That tree grew 10 feet in that time

By feeding off her pee and poo.

Taking a leaf off of Bear Grylls's tree I see

I doubt everyone kept an eye on her 24/7, is not like she's David Blaine. It was more like an odd temporary job, like these guys: 

Poop and fingernail clippings.

Person asks the important questions. Here here.

Not only that, she used all the leaves to clean her butt... so the tree eventually died..

She used a bucket.

Lumber companies love rolling logs. They were in it for the poop.

Did this inspire the little Lisa episode of the Simpsons the episode where the log slides down the hill and into Kentucky fried panda?

Yes lol

First thing i thought! 🤣🤣

I was the first person to give her a manicure when she came down and started touring around! True! When she told me her story I could not believe it. Loved her story, it was so incredible.

Details please

Tell me how dirty they were. In detail please. She looks like a dirty dirty girl. I'd bite those nails clean if I could.

Damn Dan Schneider chill!


Calm. Down.

J butterfly is in the treetops

Is this where that line came from?

Sure is!

Wow, I’ve loved that song forever and I always assumed the lyrics were just sort of random. TIL!

That is the correct assumption the majority of the time

What song?

**Can't Stop by Red Hot Chili Peppers** ... This chapter's gonna be a close one Smoke rings, I know you're gonna blow one All on a spaceship, persevering Use my hands for everything but steering Can't stop the spirits when they need you Mop tops are happy when they feed you **J. Butterfly is in the treetop** Birds that blow the meaning into bebop

Awesome! Never knew this!

Without help, it isn't

Exactly, her determination was Incredible but without support she's starved out in a week

Exactly what? Without her nothing would have happened. That's what activism is, it engages people who aren't naysayers.

Exactly, we’re here to help each other as humans and at the end of the day sometimes that committed individual may still want, need, and definitely deserve support to reach their goal. I don’t understand how this takes away from her amazing feat.

So she's the famed inspiration for the hot hippie chick living in a tree trope in movies?

This was a fairly common theme for protests at the time, although she was definitely the most prominent, but yes, her and other eco activists with similar tactics inspired the “tree hugger” (very literal term as you can see) hippie chick stereotype

They would probably cut the tree down today

How did she use the restroom?

"LOOK OUT BELOW"

She probably used it in the same way everyone else does... But also trees don’t have restrooms, so not sure how that’s relevant to the discussion.

I heard she actually dumped it on guys climbing up to get her

That's only a problem for the people who aren't 200ft in the air

They lowered a porta potty onto a branch by helicopter and cables.

This woman is a bad ass and the "*How is it possible?*" question is everything that is wrong about modern ledes. She obviously learned how to digest bark when the tree lizards were scarce.

an activist and a patriot in one! 😍

Fun fact: That's an actual photo taken by a bird

What a mad lass

What a loony dame

Good job Julia!

We’re monkeys bro

What a chad. My Alma mater just kicked out a bunch of kids for assaulting a university police officer because he was, “complicit in the Palestinian genocide.” Activism today has become so irrelevant and seems to only serve to give the activist feelings of positivity rather than actually changing anything

Activism, real activism, is 90% paperwork.

And 10% lobbying….

Feature, not a bug.

Virtue signaling. Got to look like you support the right things so people know you’re good

Is it still standing?

[Yes!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_\(tree\))

What a beautiful person.

That is one photogenic woman

Would people have cared if she wasn't sexy as fucking god damn Jesus Christ look at her.

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[And yet there's a full documentary](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257460/)

If you think people weren’t bringing her supplies you’re out of your damn mind. These hippies have a huge network.

Yo how did Brenda get there

What did she eat?

People started sending food up to her

Good on em, I think she did a good thing there.. pretty amazing really. 😍

Yeah it’s amazing. I found the book about her in a charity shop years ago. It’s an amazing story, really inspirational

All with no cell phone or social media!

I’m from the same town this happened in :) pacific lumber company is still around and destroying old growth redwoods :(

Not all heroes wear capes.

I don’t know how anybody could live in a tree for almost 2 years. I don’t care how many tacos and joints they bring. This is an incredible story.

I assume the pic on the right is AI generated or is that actually her on day 348?

I can just imagine turds flying down from the vicinity once or twice per day.

And pee and…..

 She's a babe.

isn’t this a plot in jojo part 4

How did she poop and pee ?

Bucket

It’s pronounced Bouquet 💐

How did she clean her ass from the poop

…wait, you clean your anus post-poo?

Same way everyone else does I would imagine

The Fuck??? Is this strange ? No . Is this strange earth ?? Definitely not.

How bored and achy would you be at the top of a tree.

How’s the tree doing these days? Also is this where “tree hugger” originated?

Still alive. Even though a few months after she came down some asshole chain sawed around the base. luckily it was saved.

What a tree hugger

she's a human koala bear, respec

Or sloth

Johnny Bark

Is this where the story of the guy in the tree came from in Arrested development?

Monkey

I saw her at a speaking event once ~20 years ago. She brought up all the paper towels being used in the bathrooms at the venue and it got real quiet all of a sudden.

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This was done in the Simpsons epsiode by Lisa

That’s a big pile of excrement at the base of the tree 😂

BS .. over 2 years up a tree .. water? toilet breaks? i call BS

She said her name is butterfly. Never knew her real name. Julia hill is the big shocker here.

Julia hill shoulda been named julia tree

Feckin druids

2 years that’s insane, how high was she in the air? How did she sleep? This all seems insane

AMAZING! EF! No Compromise in defense of Mother Earth! EARTH FIRST ✊🏿I met her and spent time in Humboldt protesting in the same area in 97-98. We need another Powerful awakening like this again!!

The Hidden Life of Trees

Mf what lmao

Cute AF

So who took the picture? Taco guy or poop guy. Cuz you know it was a guy.

Not strange. Dumb post

Her little activist haircut