Brookings keeps its own weather: a January east wind spills down the Chetco canyon and the air turns warm while the surf still pounds at Harris Beach. South Coast Tree Care works that coastal mix of salt, gale and heavy winter rain, shaping shore pines and myrtles with pruning that lets wind pass through a canopy instead of catching in it. Tree trimming near the harbor is half about the tree and half about the sightline to the water people came here for. When a storm off the ocean shreds a crown overnight, cleanup clears the wreckage from yards and gravel lanes before the next front arrives. Tree removal is the last answer and the careful one, lowered in stages where houses sit close under the redwood-shaded hills toward the state line.