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1. Julia and LunaA true story about a courageous woman who risked her life to save the Sequa trees. haggith gor

2. The ancient Sequa trees in North California are over 1000 years old. They are tall and beautiful.

3. The giant Sequa trees are as tall as a skyscraper of 40 floors height. The Sequa woods are very dense and they cover mountains and hills. People live in small pretty houses on the margins of the woodand at the valleys.

4. One day, John Campbell, the executive director of the big corporate "Lumber Pacific“, decided to cut down all the trees in order to sell them and make money. He sent workers with saws and they started to cut down the giant Sequa trees.

5. They sent the trees to the lumber mills in big trucks. There, they cut them for furniture and houses.

6. John Campbell, the president of Lumber Pacific and his friends wanted to make a lot of money and become rich. They planned to cut more and more trees and sell them until all the mountains become bare.

7. They thought about all the profit they would make, and they did not care about the mountains or the people who lived in the valleys. They did not have any sympathy for the trees.

8. Many trees were chopped dawn and many mountains remained bare and naked.

9. A lot of land was drifted from the mountains by the rain.

10. Without trees to hold the land, the ground was washed-out and created landslides that fell on the houses in the valleys. Many houses were buried under the mudslides

11. The people whose houses were ruined by the landslides, which were caused by the woodcutting, were afraid to file a complaint against Pacific Lumber. They feared that if they complained, they would be fired from their work.

12. A young woman called Julia Butterfly joined a group of people who fought for the rights of the trees to live. She felt pain, seeing the cut woods, she felt pain seeing the bare and naked mountains with no trees and land. She ached for the people who lost their houses. She thought about the children who were not sleeping in their own beds anymore. In hear mind she heard the trees crying at night because of the landslides.

13. Julia wondered how to protect the trees. Eric Goldsmith and Stewart Moskowitz, her friends from the environmental protection group, offered her to climb with them to the top of one of the beautiful Sequa trees and tree-sit, like baby sit and protect the tree from the wood choppers. When people sit on a tree the lumber company cannot cut it.

14. They walked together one night, in the light of the moon, they chose a tree and climbed it. They called the tree Luna, to remember the night with the bright moon when they first climbed it. The tree Luna looked so tall as if it reached the moon. Luna means moon in Spanish and in Italian.

15. They built a platform made of wood on the top of the tree. It looked like a tree house where children love to play. Julia slept in the tree house that night and the night after that too.

16. She made a decision to eat and sleep on top of the tree everyday and night until the lumber company would promise not to cut the Sequa trees anymore. She started to get to know Luna the tree,she climbed up and down between her branches and she loved her very much.

17. When the workers of the lumber company came they couldn't cut down the ancient tree without hurting Julia. They did not want Julia to fall dawn together with the tree. There are people who value human life, but they don't value the life of a tree.

18. Julia was very stubborn, she did not give up. She stayed on the tree when it was winter and cold winds were blowing, and when it was raining and snowing. She wore few sweaters and long underwear, she cuddled in her blanket. Julia loved Luna the tree, even when it was cold and freezing.

19. She stayed on the tree even when it was hot and dry and the warm sun made her sweat. She used sun tan lotion and a fan. Julia loved Luna the tree, even when it was hot and burning.

20. Eric Goldsmith and Stewart Moskowitz, her friends from the environmental group, brought her food and water. They tied up bags of products to a rope and Julia pulled it up. Sometimes they also climbed up the tree and visited her. They also loved Luna the tree.

21. John Campbell and the other directors of Lumber Pacific were very mad. They sent hooligans to threaten Julia. They sent workmen with big saws to hurt Luna the tree. And they sent dogs to scare her.

22. They sent helicopters to fly around Julia's tree, to make winds and frighten her. They sent armed men with rifles to prevent her friends from bringing her water and food. They sieged her tree. But Julia did not give up.

23. She insisted upon staying on the tree, one more week, one more month, one more year. Every day she loved Luna the tree more, every week that passed she loved Luna even more, every month she had more and more love for the tree. She vowed to remain on the tree until the lumber company promise not to cut down Luna and the trees around her.

24. The story about Julia, the courageous defender of the Sequa's trees, was published in the newspapers. Julia became famous. Her friends brought her cell phone and she gave interviews to the radio. On the radio Interviews, she told the people of California how it is to live on a Sequa tree at 130 feet height.

25. She told them how it feels to live without walking on the ground, without running, without TV and lights, and even without a bath and hot water to wash. She told them how she was sleeping on the wooden floor of the tree house, with no bed, no warm food, no mother and father, no sisters or brothers. She told them how much she loved Luna the tree and why she thought we must protect ancient old trees.

26. When Julia talked on the radio she also told the citizens of California how the lumber company was harassing her. How the helicopters they sent circled above her tree and scared her. She told the how the dogs barked at her and at her tree, and how the guards they sent didn’t let her friends bring her food and water.

27. On the television, reporters talked about how brave Julia was. On the newspaper, journalists wrote how courageous Julia was. Many people heard about how Julia risked her life in order to protect the Sequa trees. They were angry at the Lumber company that cut so many trees and hurt the natural surrounding so brutally.

28. One day, a huge storm was approching the shores of California. Tornado winds started to blow. This storm was named “El Ninio“. The broadcasters predicted that it would be a terrible storm with strong winds and forceful rain, thunders and lightening, and snow. Julia's friends asked her to come down of the tree. They were afraid that the tornado would blow her from the tree and she would get hurt. But Julia insisted to stay, she vowed not to remain on the tree until she was sure the lumber company wouldn't hurt the tree.

29. Julia stayed on the tree during the terrible tornado. At night when the winds were hollowing the tree was swaying back and forth in the wind, the sounds of the falling treesalarmed Julia. She was cold, and wet, it wasdark and scary.She wrote letters and sang songs to overcome her fears, becauseJulia loved Luna the tree very very much.

30. The newspapers wrote again about the Julia's brave and persistent struggle. The TV reported again about Julia's brave and persistent struggle. The radio stations interviewed her through her cell phone again and again. People from all over the US supported her. They sent her letters, they came to visit her at the tree and they brought her food, water and warm clothes.

31. People sent letters to the lumber company and demanded that they would stop cutting the woods. They talked and argued about how environment should be protected. They explained each other why it is important to preserve the forest and the woods, why we shouldn't harm them. They also were concerned about Julia who had lived for almost two years on the tree.

32. The pressure that was put on the of company by people who wrote letters frightened John Campbell and his directors. They got scared of all the interviews on the radio, the pictures in the newspapers and television. They were afraid that if something happened to Julia all the people would be very angry at them and blame them. John Campbell came to Luna the tree to negotiate with Julia and convince her to get off the tree.

33. Julia refused to leave the tree but she went down to the lower branches so she could talk with John Campbell. And he climbed a little to the lower branches so he could talk with Julia. At the end he made a commitment not to cut of Luna and the Sequa trees around her. Julia agreed to stop her protest and end her tree sitting. Lumber Pacific and Julia signed an agreement to protect the trees.

34. Julia got off the tree after she had lived on Luna for two years. She was so thrilled to step on the ground again. She hugged the Luna’s trunk very lovingly. When she met her mother and father she was so thrilled she hugged them Lovingly also. The photographers took pictures of her hugging the tree. The photographers took pictures of her hugging her mother and father. And they published it in the newspapers.

35. When Julia returned home, first she took a warm bath. Then she read all the stories written about her in the newspapers. Jullia loved Luna the tree the same way parents love their little girl or boy. And she wrote thank you letters to all the people who helped her save the trees.