A-L Tree Services

About A-L Tree Services

Lodgepole Creek cuts a quiet seam through Sidney, and the cottonwoods along its banks are the first thing A-L Tree Services checks after a heavy snow, ice-loaded branches bowed low enough to block the walking paths that follow the water through town. Trees are the trade the rest of the year, but winter turns the same trucks toward driveways and sidewalks across Sidney's old rail-town streets, clearing a path down to pavement before the wind can scour it back into drifts. Cheyenne County winters arrive fast off the high plains to the west, dropping temperatures a season in an afternoon, so the crew works with an eye on the sky as much as the ground. By midmorning the creek path is walkable again, ice-bent limbs propped or cleared, and the sidewalks running past Sidney's old depot buildings are scraped clean. There's a particular pride in leaving a corner of a small town more passable than the storm found it.