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The standoff ended not with a well-meaning celebrity's tragic tumble from a high branch, but in the safety of a fire truck's lift with fist extended in triumph, secure in the knowledge that her valiant act of civil disobedience raised awareness for the plight of urban farmers, or for the too-long-ignored atrocities perpetrated by unchecked arborists, we've already forgotten which. But no worries, for there will be other causes and other trees for Daryl Hannah, we can feel it.