Along the Floyd River on the edge of Le Mars, the cottonwoods and silver maples that shade the bottomland in summer turn into the biggest hazard of a Le Mars winter, their limbs loaded with ice and snow until something gives and comes down across a driveway or a fence line. DK Tree Removal works that exact intersection — clearing both the snow and whatever the storm knocked loose on top of it — starting early, often before the town's water tower, painted up like the ice cream cone that gave Le Mars its name, has caught the morning's first sun. A river-bottom property carries different risk than one up on flatter ground in town, and the crew reads a yard for weak limbs the same way they'd read it for drift patterns before the blade ever touches the driveway. Once the debris is hauled off and the snow is pushed back, what's left is a clean stretch of pavement under trees that, by July, will be doing exactly what got them planted there in the first place. It's cold, exacting work, done tree by tree and drive by drive along a river that freezes at its edges long before the ground itself gives up its last green.