Up Illinois Gulch the spruce grow tight together and the lower limbs die back into a ladder of dry sticks. Cutting Edge Tree Care, llc does tree pruning and thinning, removals, limbing for clearance, brush and slash cleanup, and lawn and grounds upkeep around Breckenridge. Late summer is the season for it, when the ground is firm underfoot and the afternoon storms wash the dust off everything. Raising a canopy off a roofline and opening space between crowns gives a lot its air back, and gives the grass beneath a fighting chance. Cut clean at the collar, stacked neat, hauled out; the stand looks like nobody was ever there, except that it breathes better.