The Tree-Sitter

"Julie Prince is a college student at the top of her class and seems destined for conventional success. But then she falls in love with Neil, a radical environmental activist and graduate student writing on the economics of deforestation. At his urging she abandons her privileged East Coast life to tree-sit in the forests of Oregon. Julie at first regards the journey as a romantic field trip; soon, though, she finds herself increasingly moved by the lush magnificence of the endangered forest and, like Neil, invested in its protection. As Neil veers toward militant acts of sabotage, Julie is…