A woman named Butterfly perched for over a year in one of these large Calif. trees to protest logging
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Julia Butterfly Hill - Wikipedia  Julia Lorraine Hill is an American environmental activist and tax redirection advocate. She is best known for having lived in a 180-foot (55 m)-tall, roughly 1500-year-old California Redwood tree (age based on first-hand ... She is the author of the book The Legacy of Luna and co-author of One Makes the Difference. She is a...
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Freshwater Journal; Sitting in a Redwood Tree, Making a Statement ...  Aug 26, 2002 ... Remedy and Wren, 27-year-old women, have spent past several months living in Redwood trees in Freshwater, Calif, in act of environmental protest ... as the young woman calls herself during these days as a tree sitter, is hardly lonely. ... In one instance, she said, protesters stopped a loaded logging truck...
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Julia Hill, the Remarkable Woman Who Saved a Tree by Living in It for  Oct 22, 2013 ... Julia Hill, the Remarkable Woman Who Saved a Tree by Living in It for ... she named Luna, in a desperate attempt to save the ancient tree and the ... In 1997, one year after her accident, she finally found what she was ... julia-butterfly-hill ... many protesters had been harassed and even harmed by the big...
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The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle ...  She ended up sitting in a nearly 200 foot redwood named Luna for over two ..... in an ancient redwood tree to protest the logging industry's clear-cutting of the forest. ... Julia Butterfly Hill spent 2 years living in a redwood tree called Luna to save .... and her two-year squat in a large redwood tree in northern California in the...
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Tree sitting - Wikipedia  Tree sitting is a form of environmentalist civil disobedience in which a protester sits in a tree, ... In 2002, two US environmental activists involved in tree-sitting protests died in ... ongoing tree-sits in Humboldt County, Ca. to prevent logging of 100+ year old ... Over 100 arrests were made on the mountain during the injunction.
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Queen (butterfly) - Wikipedia  The queen butterfly (Danaus gilippus) is a North and South American butterfly in the family .... Occasionally, the subspecies of the queen can be found somewhat north, in Kansas, Colorado, and Utah. Periodically, a stray may be found in the...
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Jeopary Questions page 1728 - SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN - Trivia Bistro  COUNTY SEATS: Tree-mendous seat of Pitkin County, Colorado  THEY WERE IN THAT? .... PLANTS & TREES: This Australian gum tree produces a resin, Botany Bay kino, that protects wood against shipworms & other borers  SURVIVAL...
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Washington State Tree: Western Hemlock  The western hemlock lives a long life (trees over 1200 years old are known). Washington's abundant evergreen forests are the basis for its unofficial nickname:...
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Spirogyra Butterfly Garden (San Jose, Costa Rica): Top Tips Before ...  Spirogyra Butterfly Garden, San Jose: See 47 reviews, articles, and 13 ... 30 species of butterflies flutter around this magical garden. ... Read all 47 reviews .... Never see so many beautiful butterfly you can spend three hours so beautiful big...
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Stanislaus National Forest - About the Area - US Forest Service  The four counties within the Forest's immediate sphere of influence are Alpine, ... The latter three are in the heart of California's historic Mother Lode, and contain ... state parks (Calaveras Big Trees and Columbia State Parks), one national park ... including the Stanislaus, El Dorado, Toiyabe, and Sierra National Forests.
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Tree - California State Capitol Museum  As humans began to populate California, the grizzly stood its ground, refusing ... delegated to the California Fish and Game Commission by the State Legislature. ... The golden trout (Salmo agua-bonita) is native only to California and was ... the flame flower, la amapola, and copa de oro (cup of gold), the poppy grows wild...
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Frequently asked Questions About Butterflies | Butterfly FAQ ...  The largest butterfly in the world is the Queen Alexandra's Birdwing ... You can provide a "Butterfly House" for butterflies, but it is not know if they actually utilize these abodes. ... below freezing during part of the winter, at least one stage in a butterfly species' life ... Monarchs are the most well known of migratory butterflies.
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Ten Must See Redwood Trees, Humboldt County, California  Big Tree This old growth giant in Redwood National & State Parks has a circumference of 68 feet. ... See more Brad in the big trees here: bit.ly/pitthumboldt.
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Karen Silkwood - Wikipedia  Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946  November 13, 1974) was an American chemical technician and labor union activist known for raising concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety of workers in a nuclear facility. ... She worked at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site plant near Crescent,...
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State Monarch Butterfly Report - Association of Fish and Wildlife ...  its larval, nectaring, and overwintering habitats within the United States. ... At least 29 states have included the Monarch butterfly in their State Wildlife Action Plan .... For state wildlife agencies that do have management authority over insects, ..... Illinois DNR does not have a specific Monarch butterfly conservation plan, but...
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Washington State Tree | Western Hemlock - State Symbols USA  The western hemlock lives a long life (trees over 1200 years old are known). Washington's abundant evergreen forests are the basis for its unofficial nickname:...
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Butterfly Facts - South Carolina Wildlife Federation  Feb 12, 2009 ... tiger and jessamine 2 ... Native plants are the best choice. ... vetches, alfalfa; Eastern Tiger Swallowtail- wild black cherry, ash, tulip tree, willow, ... Great Purple Hairstreak- mistletoe, Phoradendron flavescens; Great Spangled ... found in southern California to the giant female Queen Alexandra's Birdwing of...
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Butterflies of New Guinea - Ornithoptera tithonus  Tithonus Birdwing, Butterflies of the World, 2000+ species illustrated. ... Birdwing alexandrae, the female of which is the largest butterfly in the world, ... a female of a new species of Ornithoptera or "bird-winged butterfly," the pride of the ... This species breeds in primary rainforest in valleys of the Arfak mountains in Irian Jaya.
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The Muir Woods National Monument - an ancient Redwood Forest ...  Muir Woods National Monument - ancient Redwood forest, California ... The Muir Woods National Monument - an ancient Redwood Forest in Mill Valley, California (by Darvin .... Giant Redwoods line this path in what is technically not a Nat'l Park, but a .... Zertmatt is famous for it's beautiful ski resorts as part of Swiss Alps.
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Saving America's Living Monuments | The Saturday Evening Post  Mar 8, 2016 ... In fact, the redwood trees in California's Mariposa Grove were ... efforts of conservation groups like the Sempervirens Club, the Save the Redwoods League, and others. ... These are the occasional groves so outstanding in beauty, setting, ... Although the league was interested mainly in saving redwoods,...
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Located north of San Francisco, Muir Woods is named after ...  This national park contains 240 acres of ancient Coastal Redwood forests #WeekendGetaways #MuirWoods | See ... Muir Woods - Beautiful (Mill Valley, CA).