Payette Tree Service

About Payette Tree Service

Snow arrives in McCall and simply stays, piling on cabin roofs and bending the young lodgepole into arches until March lets them stand up again. Payette Tree Service works where the town meets the timber — the big ponderosa around the lake, the tamarack that go gold on the ridges each October before letting their needles fall. Pruning and trimming here have a plain purpose: getting limbs off a roof before the snow load finds them, opening light onto a drive that has to be cleared all winter. Removals come for the leaners and the trees that have died standing, taken down in pieces on tight lots between the lakeshore and the highway. By the time the ice sculptures go up in the middle of winter, autumn's work is invisible, which is exactly how it is meant to look.