Bedford is barely more than a crossroads in the narrowest stretch of Star Valley, hay meadows running right up to the Wyoming Range on one side and the Salt River Range on the other, close enough here that the valley floor feels more like a hallway than open country. Apex Environmental works land and water here the rest of the year — drainage, reclamation, the kind of ground work that pays attention to how snowmelt moves once spring comes — and that same attention carries into winter, watching where drifts pile against a fence line or block a culvert before they become a spring flooding problem. The crew plows the handful of long ranch driveways and access roads that branch off the valley's main road into Bedford's scattered properties, ground that gets less traffic than Afton's and holds snow correspondingly longer between clearings. Storms here come down off both ranges at once in a narrow valley, and the wind between them can drift a cleared driveway shut again within a day. Apex Environmental clears driveways, ranch access roads, and small properties around Bedford, keeping half an eye on where the melt will need to go once the ground work starts again.