West of the village the land climbs into oak and white pine, and when an ice storm works its way up Nooseneck Hill Road the woods begin cracking like rifle fire. American Tree Service, Inc. runs snow removal straight through those nights — plowing the long wooded driveways off Route 3, opening the turnarounds, clearing what the storm drops across a lane before anyone has to find it there at daylight. A tree crew reads winter differently: you watch the loading on the limbs, you know which stretch of road will shut first. The reward is small and specific — headlights swinging into a driveway that is simply open. Coventry covers more ground than any town in Rhode Island, and most of that ground is trees.