K & M Tree Service

About K & M Tree Service

The Little Sioux River bends along the edge of Cherokee under a canopy of cottonwood and bur oak that's been growing into those bluffs longer than the town's been platted, and it's under trees like that — tall, heavy-limbed, dropping ice long after a storm's passed — that K & M Tree Service does its winter work. A driveway shaded by an old cottonwood holds onto snow differently than one out in the open, patches of shade keeping ice long after the sunnier stretch of the same street has dried out. The crew that limbs and removes trees around here in the growing months is the same one clearing the driveways underneath them once winter sets in, which means knowing which branch is going to drop its load of snow onto a freshly cleared drive before it happens. Northwest Iowa's wind runs harder along the open bluffs above the river valley than it does down in the trees, so a property tucked into that canopy actually catches a break the wide-open lots on the ridge don't get. Clearing a drive here is as much about watching the branches overhead as the pavement underneath.