Dan Rawls knows trees. Having spent more than three decades making a living out of harvesting and maintaining them, he brings that experience to the company he founded in 2013, Precision Tree Service.

Drew Simmons of Precision Tree Service in Chimacum saws through a poplar tree stump that was one of about a dozen old and rotting poplars cut down on Monday along Sims Way in Port Townsend. The trees ...