Julia "Butterfly" Hill has come down out of her walnut tree. Other volunteers have been training to take the tree-sitting activist's place. She also broke a hunger strike.
"I ate a couple of bites of food from the garden today," she said by telephone.
Her place was taken by Rufina Juarez, a farm representative.
Hill, who gained fame by living for more than two years in a California redwood, said she remained at the garden until replacements were trained to allow "the community to shine its own brilliance."
Why in the world do we care about Butterfly? Actually we don't. In the least. It just gives us a chance to link back to this picture from when celebrity tree-sitter Joan "Damn This Bark's Rough" Baez made her brief media photo op in the same tree.
Shine your brilliance, y'all.
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