In Brooks Township the Muskegon River works its way west through sand and pine toward Newaygo, and the yards along those roads are carved out of the same light soil. Great Lakes Synthetic Turf keeps lawns here in order — mowing, trimming, edging, and the spring and fall cleanups that a stand of white pine makes necessary twice a year. Sand drains fast, so a Newaygo County lawn dries where a clay yard would hold on, and the cut has to account for it. Along the water and the backroads toward Croton, a yard finished cleanly to its border is easy to pick out from the road. That contrast — kept ground against the run of the forest — is what the job is for.