DZHULIJA WHICH LIVES ON THE SEQUOIA.
DZHULIJA WHICH LIVES ON THE SEQUOIA.
ALEXANDER ERASTOV.
One and a half years ago in California on an evergreen sequoia
Has lodged: former American model Dzhulija Hill. For it
Time the girl by a nickname Butterfly stroke still never went down on
The earth.
With arrival of colds she puts on a ski suit, a knitted hat
And, having wrapped up in a blanket, continues to sit on a bough. Nearby, on
One of branches, its cellular telephone hangs. "Welcome in
Hotel "California", - tries to joke it every time, when to it
On 60-metre height friend Michael gets. With the help
lebedki it lifts upward a backpack with water, fruit and mail for
The 25-year-old girl.
Dzhulija Hill it is not simple so sits on a tree, and: as a sign of the protest.
She, tells German magazine "Stern", is revolted by the barbarous
The relation to wood stocks in California - American state,
Rich with the oldest breeds of mahogany. That is why has solved
To climb up a tree and not to change "residence permit" until then,
Ruthless deforestation will not stop yet.
For a long time already in the northwest USA, where for the American
derevoobrabatyvajushchej the industries cutting down of one of most is conducted
Old large forests in the world, goes some kind of the civil
War. By estimations of ecologists, 97 percent of old breeds of the red
Tree it is already destroyed.
Struggle for the remained goes to the death. In September
Last year when "green" blocked roads on which
Woodcutters went on job, one has been mortally wounded of
Founders of movement which the Earth - first of all is called "!",
David Chen: the tree has "casually fallen to it. Some times police
Applied against demonstrators tear gas. However any
Investigations on these affairs was not. Were, the truth, cases, when
Radical "defenders of wood" too used the forbidden
Receptions: inserted into trees steel rods, that at woodcutters
Axes failed benzopily.
Now movement has decided to refuse "military tactics",
Having passed to "nonviolent opposition". Such, what,
For example, has undertaken Dzhulija Hill.
Where that tree on which lives Dzhulija grows? In a small village
Stefford in 450 kilometres from San Francisco. It, actually,
Settlement of woodcutters. In two miles from here - derevoobrabatyvajushchaja
Factory "Pasifik Lamber", the world's largest manufacturer
Production from mahogany. At once behind a factory protection
There is a steep slope on mountain where huge beauties grow
Sequoias. However, without the special admission to pass in wood
It is forbidden. And purely physically it is uneasy. To the right and on the left
Pines, dense ferns, bushes. Not less than two hours
It is necessary to reach the purpose.
At last Michael, friend Dzhulii, throws a backpack to bottom
Tree. The trunk at the roots in diameter reaches five metres. And
Age of the tree which has become for Dzhulii by a residence,
It is estimated in one thousand years.
Michael showers a cable on a branch, fixes it, and on other
The end does two loops - one fastens to a belt, and another serves
To it a support, as if a motorcycle footboard. It is literally on centimetre
Moves ahead upward. "Only not to look downwards", - he speaks
To itself, being shaken on a cable in 30 metres from the earth. In half an hour
It reaches first "platform" Dzhulii, so to say, to
Hall. In total on a tree some "rooms", one of which
Is almost on the top of a sequoia.
Dzhulija receives the visitor in one of bottom "residences".
Earlier, speak, even cried, when reporters sent. Those,
Having listened to it, wrote: there lives supposedly on a tree ex-model,
The nice girl, fast and quick as if the squirrel, flits
Barefoot on boughs. Told that as a toilet it
Uses a wooden tub that she sleeps in a sleeping bag,
Adhered to the big branch that washes rain water, and on
Cardboard boxes from under corn-flakes writes verses: "And
Nobody has informed, that thus I struggle for the most valuable
Biological kind! "- is distressed Dzhulija.
It was especially difficult to it when hurricane "the Ale nino" stormed.
"The tree was shaken, and I sat on a bough, as though on a horse in
Rodeo time ", - is spoken by her.
First the girl was slighted by employees of factory. From the earth
Insults, threats reached. Dzhulija recollects: "Once
The helicopter which nearly has not touched with the blades me arrived.
But so that to get to me on the upper part, - such not
Was. They know, that at height of 60 metres I am inaccessible. For this purpose
The whole command of hunters - of huntsmen "is necessary to them.
By words a mademoiselle Butterfly stroke, it achieves, that
Large forest territory have transformed into national park. However
Anybody still in any way on this appeal has not reacted.
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