Pinetop-Lakeside sits up against the Mogollon Rim in the largest ponderosa forest anywhere, and after an August rain the whole town smells like warm pine bark. Big Matt's Tree Service works those trees — crown thinning, pruning limbs off cabin roofs, and removing pines that have died standing or grown too close to a chimney. The loop around Woodland Lake shows what a healthy stand looks like, and the job is getting a yard nearer to that. January snow load and monsoon lightning both bring wood down, and pulling it out of a driveway is part of living up here. A cabin with daylight around it and a clean stump where a hazard used to be is how a day ends well.