Winter arrives in Bear Creek Township off Little Traverse Bay, gray and sideways, and by morning the cedars along the hill roads are bent under it. Bear Creek Tree Service LLC works those slopes above the bay and the drives that switchback down toward Petoskey. Tree removal is the honest work of the cold months — a leaning ash taken down in pieces over a roof, ropes doing what a bucket cannot reach. In the softer season it turns to tree trimming and pruning: deadwood out, clearance over the garage, the crown balanced so the next big blow has less to grab. Storm damage cleanup follows whatever the bay decides to send, and the yard is left swept and the wood stacked where it was asked to go.