None-tree Hill to become One Tree Hill again

From Earth Times:

New Zealand’s One Tree Hill – famous around the world to geologists and fans of Irish rock band U2 – is to get a tree again after being bare for nine years following a historic agreement between the government and Maori tribes signed on Friday. The lone Monterey pine tree atop the 183-metre peak in Auckland was cut down for safety reasons in 2001 after being attacked with a chainsaw by a Maori protestor who saw the foreign import symbolising injustices the indigenous race had suffered under white colonisation.

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