Late afternoon in Livingston, the light comes across the orchards and hayfields and lands on the Catskills standing blue on the far side of the Hudson. Livingston's Tree service works that Columbia County ground where hedgerow maples divide one farm from the next and shade the old road all summer. Pruning here is about the long game — clearing what has died back, lifting a crown off a roofline, shaping a young tree so it grows into something worth keeping. Removal comes for the ones the wind has already started to take. And when a squall crosses the river and drops timber across a driveway, cleanup means every stick of it gone by dark.