Culturally valuable yellow cedar on the decline

Wayne Price works on a 12-foot-tall totem pole in his Haines studio. (Photo: Emily Files/KHNS)Yellow cedar trees grow from the top of California, all the way to Alaska, and according to a recent study, the Southeast part of the state could be the hardest hit with yellow cedar’s decline, due to the planet heating up. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been petitioned to put yellow cedar on the endangered species list. The wood is commercially valuable. It’s culturally valuabl