A woman lived up a 180-foot, 1,000-year-old tree for 2 years to save a forest from loggers. Meet Julia 'Butterfly' Hill.

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Julia "Butterfly" Hill spent years living in a tree to save it from loggers. Andrew Lichtenstein/Sygma via Getty ImagesIn 1997, Julia Hill started a tree sit in a California redwood to protest logging efforts. For 738 days, Hill lived on two platforms in cramped, windy, and wet conditions.