What we clear
Anything already on the ground, plus the things a storm leaves hanging where they should not be.
In practice that is limbs and branches off the lawn, off the driveway, off the walks and off a roofline. It is leaves and dead growth in autumn. It is the matted, blown-in mess that turns up in April once the snow finally goes. And it is the gravel and sod the plow pushed onto the grass over the winter, which is a thing that happens on every gravel drive in this valley and which nobody enjoys raking out themselves.
Whatever gets gathered leaves with us. Hauling is part of the visit, not a line item you find out about later.
What we do not do
We do not cut standing trees. No climbing, no removals, no stump work, nothing that belongs to a certified arborist with rigging and the insurance to match.
That line is drawn on purpose and it does not move on the day. A landscaping company that takes on tree work without an arborist’s equipment and insurance is one bad afternoon away from a very expensive problem, and a limb that comes down wrong at a lakefront property lands on something worth real money. If a job is on the wrong side of the line we will tell you and point you at somebody who does it properly.
Send a photo before you book. Most of the time it takes about ten seconds to tell you which kind of job you have.
Why this matters more here
Bear Lake sits in an open basin with twenty miles of water and very little shelter, and the wind that comes off it is the kind that finds the weak branch on every tree in the valley. Add heavy, wet snow loading in winter, which is what actually brings down the big limbs at this elevation, and most properties here lose something most years.
The second half of it is who owns those properties. Roughly a third of the housing in Bear Lake County is seasonal. When a storm goes through in February, the owner is usually somewhere else entirely, and the first they hear about the limb across their driveway is when they try to drive up it in June.
That is the service. Somebody in the valley who will go look, clear it, haul it, and send you a picture so you know.
Fall cleanup, and why it is not optional at this elevation
A lawn that goes into winter under a wet mat of leaves does not come out of it well.
Snow arrives here earlier and stays longer than it does down in Cache Valley. Whatever is lying on the grass in November is still lying on it in March, pressed flat, wet, and dark. Turf under that comes out thin and matted, and it is a straightforward way to get snow mold on a lawn you have spent all season feeding.
Getting the leaves and dead growth off before the first real snow is one of the cheapest things you can do for a lawn, and it is usually scheduled onto the same trip as the sprinkler blowout, since both want to happen in the same few weeks.
Spring cleanup
The other end of the same job. Broken branches the winter brought down, debris that blew in from somewhere else, matted leaves that were missed, and the gravel and torn sod along the edge of a plowed driveway.
Spring cleanup is worth doing before the irrigation startup rather than after, because it is a lot easier to spot a cracked riser or a head pushed over by frost heave on ground that has actually been cleared.
Pricing
Hourly, with hauling included, because no two storms leave the same mess.
A large storm can be quoted flat so you are not signing up for an open-ended hourly bill. Most jobs can be measured from photos and quoted in writing without a visit; some need a quick look on site first. Either way the number comes to you in writing before any work happens.
Photos help more here than on any other service. A few pictures of what is down will usually turn a rough range into a firm number the same day.