Skunk musk deployed as UI’s evergreen anti-theft strategy
The decades-old tactic keeps Christmas “tree-napping” low as campus holiday decorations go up.
University of Idaho Facilities have sprayed skunk musk on campus trees to prevent theft. This anti-theft tactic, along with signage posted by smaller Christmas tree-sized evergreens around campus, was implemented in 1990 because of an annual average of four to five evergreen trees cut down and tree-napped around the winter […]
