Green Cat Services

About Green Cat Services

Rolla sits where the open wheat country gives way to the first wooded hills of the Turtle Mountains, and that change in the land shows up fast once the snow starts, drifting differently among the birch and bur oak than it does out on the flat ground to the south. Green Cat Services works the driveways and lanes that climb into those low hills north and east of town, where a slope holds snow and shade longer than a level farmyard ever would. Clearing a hillside drive here takes more than a straight pass; it means finding where ice forms on the grade and keeping the blade angled to the slope instead of the road underneath it. The timber breaks the wind, so storms in this part of Rolette County tend to pile snow in uneven pockets against the tree lines rather than the long even ridges more common on open prairie. Green Cat Services works the curves the hills demand instead of the straight run more common on flatter ground nearby. By the time a hillside lane is finished, the grade sits open enough to drive straight up without downshifting, the same way Rolla itself sits tucked into the rise of the Turtle Mountains.