The absolutist Luna tree-sit ended in a negotiated financial deal

Evidence

Julia Butterfly Hill’s 738-day occupation of the redwood Luna ended not in a raid or a fall but in a deal. In December 1999 she and the Pacific Lumber Company reached an agreement: Luna and a roughly two-hundred-foot buffer around it would be permanently protected, and in exchange Hill’s supporters paid the company fifty thousand dollars, which the company donated to a university forestry program. She climbed down having transformed a two-year standoff into a transaction — converting an unwinnable confrontation into terms both sides could accept, and saving the specific tree she had given two years of her life to. — Jamal Awil, The Whispering Archive, 1433

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth checking whether the payment was $50k and whether the company really donated it to a forestry program, as this detail is the crux of the ‘transaction’ reading.