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.

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.

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.She ultimately reached an agreement with the lumber company to preserve the tree and others like it.Some of California's redwood trees have been growing for thou…