By late September the aspen stands up French Gulch turn all together, a gold seam running through dark lodgepole, and every tree in Breckenridge shows plainly what it has been doing all summer. TSH Tree Service reads them then — the deadwood, the limb leaning out over a roofline, the crowded stems pinching a driveway. Pruning and trimming to shape and lighten, removals where a tree has gone past keeping, stump work, and brush and ladder-fuel thinning to open up room around a house sitting at the forest's edge. The cleanup counts as much as the cut: chips hauled off, ground raked, nothing left behind but a lot that breathes better than it did that morning. Trees grow slowly at this elevation, which is exactly why they are worth tending well.