The country around Munith is glacier-made — kettle ponds, gravel hills, oak openings that the Waterloo hills carry off to the west. Arb Tech Tree Services works those slopes, where a tree removal is as much about the ground under the drop zone as it is about the tree. There's trimming to keep a two-rut driveway open through the hardwoods, pruning that steers a young oak away from the house, and the storm damage cleanup that Jackson County summers keep supplying. Nothing here is flat, which makes a tidy finish that much more satisfying. Once the brush is gone and the ruts are smoothed, the hillside looks like it did before, only lighter.