Nearly three decades after living 738 days in an ancient redwood, Julia Butterfly Hill sees the same resolve in activists occupying cottonwoods along the U.S.-Mexico border. #treesit

This past week, the desert monsoon skies held towering clouds, dark with rain and lit with shafts of sunlight. My old jeep was creaking along the dirt road from Patagonia to #Lochiel in southern Arizona’s San Rafael Valley when I saw six Border Patrol vehicles massing around a spur road. #treesit