The land around Ferris was left in low hills and kettle ponds, and the gravel roads bend for reasons only the glacier remembers. Canopy Masters Tree Service works these Montcalm County yards and woodlots — tree removal where a trunk has gone punky at the root flare, tree trimming and pruning where a young maple still has a chance to grow up straight. April here is mud and sap and the sound of a saw carrying clean across an open field. When a line of summer storms drops a limb over a farm lane, storm damage cleanup gets the lane open and the brush chipped the same day. Pruning is an argument with the future that the tree usually wins; the aim is to help it win well.