Edwards Township smells like jack pine and woodsmoke in October, and the two-tracks fill with aspen leaves the color of new pennies. NATES TREE SERVICE keeps the yards, cabin lanes, and back clearings of this corner of Ogemaw County open and lit. Tree removal takes out the pine that has gone gray at the top; tree trimming and pruning lift a canopy off a roofline before the ice finds it. Storm damage cleanup is a northern-Michigan certainty — a spring wind comes through the Rifle River country and lays a whole trunk across a two-track overnight. Nothing beats a drive cut open before the first coffee has gone cold.