April 16, 2009
Author to speak about logging and other
environmental issues
Author Julie Butterfly Hill will visit the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point on
Tuesday, April 21.
Hill will give a presentation at 7:30 p.m. in the Dreyfus University Center Theater. Cost is
$5 for the public and free to students with a UWSP ID.
Julia Butterfly Hill is the best-selling author of “The Legacy of Luna,” her two-year account
of her life in a redwood tree in northern California. She remained in the tree in an effort to
stop the area from intensive logging. Since her experience, she has traveled around the world
to speak about her cause and other environmental issues.
The event is sponsored by the Environmental Council, Student Government Association, the Society
of Ecological Restoration, the Environmental Education and Naturalists Association, and the
Philosophy Department and Centertainment Productions.
