In late autumn the bosque below Belen goes gold all at once, and the cottonwoods along the acequias begin letting go of the limbs they hauled around all summer. Jim & sons tree service works the valley lots and the fields stretching east toward the Manzanos, removing cottonwoods split at an old wound, cutting crowns back off barn roofs and power drops, and pruning shade and fruit trees before the cold arrives. Irrigated ground grows a tree quickly and does not always give it the roots to match, so they look at the base first and the canopy second. After a wind runs down the river corridor and puts wood across a drive, they cut, load, and level the ground behind them. A tree that shades a house through a Valencia County July has earned the trouble.