Kevin Jasa's Tree Services

About Kevin Jasa's Tree Services

Estherville folds around a bend of the Des Moines River, close enough to its upper reaches that the bluffs here have real shoulders to them, wooded slopes that go bare and gray by December. Kevin Jasa spends the growing season up in those trees, and when winter takes over, the same eye for a branch's weight and a slope's pitch goes into reading a driveway for where the drifts will pile deepest. A tree crew already owns the equipment for reaching awkward corners — a woodpile blocking half a garage, a driveway squeezed between two big bur oaks — so the plow work fits yards the tree work already knows. Mornings along the river bluffs and up toward Fort Defiance can carry a hard wind off open country, packing snow against anything standing still, including a car left in the drive overnight. Getting a path cut through before the day starts means the bluff-top streets of Estherville stay walkable, one cleared driveway opening onto the next.