Winter opens the country up around California, Arkansas — the timber goes bare, the fence lines reappear, and you can finally see what a place grew over during the warm months. AR-17 Land & Tree, Inc. works that season hard: brush cut back off the fences, saplings taken out of the pasture edge, tree work done while the ground is firm and the sap is down. Come spring the same ground gets mown instead, kept low so it never gets away again. There is a particular pleasure in reopening a lane that had closed itself, and in driving out at dusk past a line that will still be clear in June. Land holds whatever you put into it, and it shows.