Article: VANDAL MAKES OFF WITH EXOTIC UW TREE.(FRONT)

A holiday heist has left the UW-Madison campus with a stump instead of an exotic tree.

Over the weekend, one of the University of Wisconsin's eight Serbian spruce trees went missing. Daniel Einstein, environmental management coordinator at the university, noticed this morning that the 8-foot, 23-year-old tree that once stood near the Noland Zoology Building is now just a stump. A report is being filed with University Police, he said.

Serbian spruce trees, native to southeastern Europe and planted throughout the Northeast and Midwest regions of the United States, are distinctive for their narrow shape, dark green foliage and arching branches.

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