B.E.A.T.S. TREES, GROUNDS-KEEPING, AND SNOW-REMOVAL SERVICES L.C.

About B.E.A.T.S. TREES, GROUNDS-KEEPING, AND SNOW-REMOVAL SERVICES L.C.

Laurens sits out in the open reach of Pocahontas County, where the land runs flat enough that a farmstead's tree line is really a windbreak first and shade second, planted generations back to slow exactly the kind of wind that turns a snowfall into a three-foot drift against a garage door. B.E.A.T.S. works those same shelterbelts and the driveways they were planted to protect, clearing the drifts that pile up on the lee side of every row of evergreens ringing a farmyard. The crew's name lays out the whole job plainly — trees, grounds, snow — because out here those three things are tangled together every winter, a fallen branch as likely to need clearing as the snow itself. On a still morning, before the next system starts pushing more snow off the open fields, a freshly plowed farm lane between two windbreak rows can be the calmest stretch of ground for miles. It's steady, practical work suited to a landscape that gives the wind nothing to stop it but the trees people planted on purpose.