So, what is the best way to go about finding which of the many mods installed is the one with the less-than-desirable static in my game? Probably perfectly fine if only the mod in question were loaded, but with other mods, this tree is in the middle of a building. I haven't been successful in just guessing which mods to load up in the CS, the tree never appears. Any suggestions?

In game, walk up to the tree, click the console button (~) then click on the tree, then type ori in the console and it will tell you which mod adds it to the game world.

Theres also a way to delete it via the console but I never use console commands so you will have to ask someone else.

Wow, the "ori" command is really helpful. "Disable" is the command to remove it from your savegame btw, but I didn't know about the ori command. Thank you very much!