Meet Julia Butterfly Hill: The 23-year-old climbed a 1,000-year-old tree and stayed there for 738 days before it was chopped down | World News
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July 16, 2026
At age 23, Julia Butterfly Hill climbed nearly 180 feet into the canopy of a towering 1,000-year-old redwood tree in northern California, intending to stay there only for a few days as part of an environmental protest. Instead, the ancient tree named…