Cutting Luna Someone made a 19-foot gash in the tree that the conservationist Julia Hill, known as Butterfly, had lived in for two years. This is the sometimes inherent cruelty of symbolic politics. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/09/opinion/09SAT3.html or if paranoid, try http://partners.nytimes.com/2000/12/09/opinion/09SAT3.html