Joan Baez and Bonnie Raitt, who calls Julia “the great heroine of our time,” pay Julia a visit in the tree. Later, the two music legends give a benefit concert to raise awareness of the struggle to save the Redwoods.
This award-winning documentary reveals the extraordinary transformation and spiritual journey of a 23-year-old woman who climbed 200 feet up into a redwood tree and lived there for two years in order to save the thousand-year-old-tree from destruction. Julia lived on a platform the size of a coffee table, survived the ordeal of menacing helicopters, and was nearly blown off the tree and thrown to the forest floor by 90 MPH winds. As a result of her courageous act of civil disobedience, Julia is the youngest person thus far inducted into the Ecology Hall of Fame.