Rocky Mountain Tree Service

About Rocky Mountain Tree Service

The trees around Choteau don't grow by accident — most of the shelterbelts standing between the ranch houses and the wind off the Rocky Mountain Front were planted generations ago specifically to break it, rows of cottonwood and caragana that catch as much drifting snow as they stop wind. Rocky Mountain Tree Service works those same properties in winter, clearing the drives and yards that sit in the lee of those windbreaks where snow piles deepest. It's work that depends on reading the trees as much as the storm, since a shelterbelt doing its job perfectly is also the reason a driveway needs digging out twice as often as the open field beside it. Section-line plantings run for a mile or more on some of these ranches, and each one throws its own particular drift pattern depending on which way the wind blew that week. By the time each job wraps, the drifts the trees pulled in are gone, and the windbreak keeps doing exactly what it was planted to do.