At seven thousand feet the ponderosas do most of the talking, and in a Bellemont wind they have plenty to say. Good Brothers Tree Service reads them for a living: the limb hanging over a roofline, the dead top that has to come out, the crowded stand that would be healthier a few trunks lighter. They trim, limb, take down and clear away, then rake up the needles and cones that carpet everything beneath the pines. Autumn is the season to see the result, low gold light coming through a thinned canopy onto ground that finally gets some sun. Work in pine country is careful by necessity, and careful is how they like it.