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Twits in a Tree
Living in the top of a tree in the Berkeley hills has some lovely moments. But the commute -- 50 feet straight up -- is a killer. When three tree-sitters in a group called Save the Oaks took up residence this month in the grove just below UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium, they got a lot of attention. They vowed to live in the branches until Cal agreed not to knock down 38 mature oak trees in the grove to make way for a $125 million athletic training facility. Since then, the city, neighbors and the tree-sitters have filed lawsuits in an attempt to stop the project, and this week UC agreed to put it on hold until January. Meanwhile, tree-sitting celebrity Julia "Butterfly" Hill, who spent two years in a redwood, is supporting the protest. In other words, it's classic Berkeley. But this morning, one of the sitters, 20-year-old Jessica Walsh, will mark three weeks in a tree, which is a substantial commitment. So far she's endured pounding rainstorms, trunk-swaying winds and even a magnitude 3.7 earthquake. So what is it like up there? Posted by: .com 2006-12-23 |
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