Annarbor.com is reporting the theft of two conifers from Nichols Arboretum. Presumably, the unnamed species of pine and Eastern Red-Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) were stolen to be used as Christmas trees.
Questions remain: who would commit such a heinous act of tree-crime? Why didn't annarbor.com hyphenate Red-Cedar in their article? Do they actually think junipers are related to cedars? Who has such bad taste in Christmas trees? I mean, when was the last time you saw someone using a juniper as a Christmas tree? Most pines aren't great either, unless you are going for that Charlie Brown Christmas look. These are troubling times we live in, friends.