Record snows followed by rain in November toppled a 70-year-old yellow cedar near 1 Mile Haines Highway, a tree apparently planted by pioneering farm woman Minnie Vermiere.
Yellow cedar, actually a type of cypress, fares marginally in the Chilkat Valley. There’s a 20-acre stand of it behind the former Army tank farm on Lutak Road, and a few individual trees, like Vermiere’s, that were transplanted from Lutak to along the Piedad Road hillside.
But the…
