ohia trees butchered in hawaiian acres

[Durian Fiend]

Not really. One definition of butcher is "spoil, ruin, mutilate, mangle, mess up, wreck"-which is a perfect use of the word in this case.

I have no problem with trees being cleared in a right of way for legitimate purposes, but when it's done in an ugly and unwittingly harmful way, then ya-it's a butcher job.