The Holleran family stood firm against a natural gas pipeline that threatened their dream of a maple syrup farm. They navigated the twisting turns of an inscrutable federal bureaucracy. They stood between the trees and chainsaws. But when they were threatened with arrests and fines, close knit ties began to fray. Men with chainsaws, guarded by men with assault rifles, felled 558 trees. And then something happened that took everyone by surprise.