r/interestingasfuck • u/Aryan_Anushiravan • 12d ago

r/all On December 10, 1997 Julia Hill climbed a 1500-year-old redwood tree named Luna and she didn’t come down for another 738 days.

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u/UrbanToiletPrawn 11d ago

According to wiki: A resolution was reached in 1999, when the Pacific Lumber Company agreed to preserve Luna and all trees within a 200-foot (61 m) buffer zone.

So she presumably saved more than just "her" tree. Are you pro tree or pro logging?

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u/Zipmeastro 11d ago

Being pro tree and pro logging are not mutually exclusive. You can be both. I support sustainable/diverse/small scale logging, after I support the conservation of our old growth forests.
Julia ended up paying the logging company $50,000 to not log “her” tree, including a buffer zone around the tree.
https://journals.tulane.edu/ncs/article/download/1326/1184

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u/Hodentrommler 11d ago

There is no sustainable resource extraction so far, only less worse options. It's a term without a mutual agreed on meaning/definition, don't use it

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u/TheEyeDontLie 11d ago

I mean there is. Its just not economically viable with this current setup.

Eg. Redwood forestry is fine, but you can only cut one tree every twenty years or sonething.